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Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.
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Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
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To be saved is only this,–salvation from our own selfishness.
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To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.
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To have that sense of one”s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent;To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference
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To hoard up all to ourselves is great injustice as well as ingratitude.
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To love one”s self is the beginning of a life-long romance
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To wash one”s hair, make one”s toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure.
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Up to a point a man”s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, ‘This I am today; that I will be tomorrow.’
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We are too much haunted by ourselves; we project the central shadow of ourselves on everything around us. And then comes in the gospel to rescue us from this selfishness. Redemption is this–to forget self in God.
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We can neither change nor overpower God’s eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.
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We erect the idol self, and not only wish others to worship, but worship ourselves.
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We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.
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We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.
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What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?
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When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.
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Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.
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Who has not sat, afraid, before his own heart”s curtain?
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You cannot be your brother’s keeper if you are caged by selfishness.
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You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.
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