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Letter "S" » Selfishness
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«Charity consists not so much on HOW MUCH WE GIVE to the person but on HOW MUCH WE KEEP FOR OURSELVES»
«I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.»
«Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.»
«If you're working to make the playing field fair and level, you're working for the wrong reasons. Work to take the opportunities that arise and use your individual talents to excel at those opportunities.»
«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.»
«If at the end of the week's work, and on receiving his wages, he were to ask his employer for a larger sum, pleading that, though he could not justly claim it and did not really deserve it, yet he expected it, he would not only receive the larger sum but would, doubtless, be discharged from his post. Yet in spiritual things men do not think it to be either foolish or selfish to ask for these blessings»
Author: James Allen
(Statesman)
| About:
Blessings,
Selfishness
| Keywords:
discharges, discharging, pleaded, pleadings, pleads, receiving
«All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Charm,
Selfishness,
Self Importance
| Keywords:
attraction, charmed, charming, fancied, fanciest, fancy, fancying, people, secret, spoiled, spoiling, spoilt, their, The Attractions
«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.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Conformity,
Individuality,
Selfishness
«All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Selfishness,
Sympathy
| Keywords:
acknowledged, disguised
«And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Selfishness
| Keywords:
Cupid, painted, winged
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