“Selfishness comes after self. Looks like the 'self' is overtaken. This is what you call the ugliest truth.”
Ephrem Daniel
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
Oscar Wilde
“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
“A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”
Albert Einstein
“Even the selfish and disloyal want their own lives to be better. (www.terrybarnett.com)”
Terry Barnett
“I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.”
