| |  | | | | | | | | | | | A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses. | | Oscar Wilde | | | | | I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others. One of the booby traps of freedom—which is bordered on all sides by isolation—is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life’s banquet. | | Saul Bellow | | Live for yourself -- there's no one else
More worth living for
Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more | | Neil Peart | | | Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. | | Charles Caleb Colton | | | Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. | | Oscar Wilde | | | Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | | | There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. | | Oscar Wilde | | | There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us. | | Laurence J. Peter | | | Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere | | Blaise Pascal | | | | Well, I know they've always told you/
Selfishness was wrong/
Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this song/ | | Neil Peart | | | | | Quotes: 1 - 12 of 12 | Pages: 1 | | | |
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