(267 quotes found)
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”
Mother Teresa
“The only thing you will ever possess is yourself, and that only briefly, if at all.”
Rain Bojangles
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
Oscar Wilde
“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
“All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.”
“Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.”
Napoleon Hill
“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”
Jane Austen
“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
“Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires”
Lao Tzu
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