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Quotes about Selfishness
Jealousy is a child of selfishness and distrust.
- Mourning Dove
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller
Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity,
reduce selfishness, have few desires.
- Lao Tzu
Every man must decide whether he will
walk in the light of creative altruism
or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
- Napoleon Hill
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Selfish Quotes and Sayings
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure.
I make mistakes, I am out of control
and at times hard to handle.
But if you can't handle me at my worst,
then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
- Marilyn Monroe
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals,
that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-honor (self-respect) is in no way selfish.
Before I can give to others,
I must have something to give.
Only by first creating
my own self-esteem and happiness,
do I possess the resources to
contribute anything meaningful to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Real love is never a selfish emotion.
If you want something from someone -
especially if that something is sex -
what you are feeling is not true love.
True love is about wanting happiness for the person you love -
and not about seeking happiness for yourself.
Fortunately, in most cases our own loving presence
is the greatest gift we can give to a person we love.
Nonetheless, the litmus test of love is knowing
we would choose never to see that person again
if we believed that distance would bring them greater happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take time to laugh.
It is the music of the soul.
Take time to think.
It is the source of power.
Take time to play.
It is the source of perpetual youth.
Take time to read.
It is the fountain of wisdom.
Take time to pray.
It is the greatest power on Earth.
Take time to love and be loved.
It is a God-given privilege.
Take time to be friendly.
It is the road to happiness.
Take time to give.
It is too short a day to be selfish.
Take time to work.
It is the price of success.
- Anonymous
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
Impatient Quotes and Sayings
Ambition is like love,
impatient both of delays and rivals.
- The Buddha
Ambition Quotes and Sayings
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
- Marilyn Monroe
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experiences of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
Whether it be true or not, I can say for one
that I have no other so great as that
of being truly esteemed of my fellow men,
by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
- Abraham Lincoln
Kills Quotes and Sayings
The tongue like a sharp knife...
Kills without drawing blood.
- The Buddha
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Worry is rust upon the blade.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt.
Doubt separates people.
It is a poison that disintegrates
friendships and breaks up pleasant relations.
It is a thorn that irritates and hurts;
it is a sword that kills.
- The Buddha
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
Tongue Quotes and Sayings
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push,
except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
The martyr cannot be dishonored.
Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame;
every prison a more illustrious abode.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation,
man would still be a beast in the forest.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
AUM, the most primordial human sound -
and the sound most connected to Spirit,
is pronounced in these three parts:
A (as in mama) - a throat sound
that vibrates in the abdomen - signifies waking.
U (as in who) - a tongue sound
that vibrates in the chest - signifies dreaming.
M (as in mama) - a lip sound
that vibrates in the head - signifies sleeping.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am the Wizard. This world is mine.
I speak. It's done. My realm is fine.
My wand, my tongue. My sword, my voice.
It's good. It's bad. I speak my choice.
I say happy, or I say mad.
I say angry, or I say glad.
I name that drawing on the wall.
It's not graffiti after all.
The past has been broken. The prison's not real.
My word holds the magic - the power to heal.
Intent is my weapon - a sword from above.
Cruel hate, fear, and anger transmute into love.
This world's my joy. This mouth's my toy.
Reborn -I'm a brand new girl or boy.
I choose. I speak. My will is done.
Come join. Come play. This can be fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Master teaches that the way of qigong cannot be hurried.
Wuji refers to the time before the creation -
when everything was formless.
Standing in the wuji position, my feet are parallel
to each other, shoulder-width apart.
My knees are slightly bent,
and the tip of my tongue touches the roof of my mouth.
My arms are held in front of me with my elbows bent
and my palms parallel to each other - about four inches apart.
At first I focus on my breathing, and only my breathing.
Later, I visualize the energy or "Qi" between my palms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sad Quotes and Sayings
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
A moment without joy is an eternity of sadness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
I seldom think about my limitations,
and they never make me sad.
Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times;
but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
- Helen Keller
"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
People do not like to think.
If one thinks, one must reach conclusions.
Conclusions are not always pleasant.
- Helen Keller
Most of us spend our lives as if
we have another one in the bank.
- Ben Irwin
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
The only cure for grief is action.
- G. H. Lewes
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein
Though lovers be lost love shall not.
- Dylan Thomas
If self-validation were our
most significant societal measure -
we would give trophies to ourselves.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A pessimist is never disappointed.
- Jack Cleary
In a separation it is the one
who is not really in love
who says the more tender things.
- Marcel Proust
Seeing is not always believing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am but a grain of sand on the beach of life.
My footprints in the sands of time soon wash away.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
Those you trust the most can steal the most.
- Lawrence Lief
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss.
It is originally an unlearned feeling process.
Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
- Anne Grant
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot
There is more hunger for love and appreciation
in this world than for bread.
- Mother Teresa
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
- Mike Murdock
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
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