“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.”
Richard Bach
“The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.”
John Lyly
“Even the selfish and disloyal want their own lives to be better. (www.terrybarnett.com)”
Terry Barnett
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”
Mother Teresa
“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