“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”
Mother Teresa
“Even the selfish and disloyal want their own lives to be better. (www.terrybarnett.com)”
Terry Barnett
“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”
Jane Austen
“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultiv”
Dalai Lama
“To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature”
Adam Smith
“It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind.”
Oscar Wilde
