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selfish
«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.»
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
| About:
Emotion,
Mistakes,
Selfishness,
Truth
| Keywords:
accords, comfortable, course, easiest, emotions, especially, insight, most especially, selfish
«It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.»
Author: Andrew Jackson
(President)
| About:
Government,
Power,
Purpose
| Keywords:
bend, purposes, regretted, selfish
«If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish pig.»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
by-product, cultivation, devotes, pig, selfish
«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»
Author: Dalai Lama
| About:
Pain
| Keywords:
caused, contentment, inflict, inflicting, in turn, pursuit, satisfaction, selfish
«In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.»
Author: Iris Murdoch
(Novelist, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
inflexible, partner, pattern, selfish, set up
«It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.»
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
| Keywords:
aped, apes, aping, base, disturbs, mischievous, ravenous, savage, selfish, The Vulture, unjust, vulture, wolves
«It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live»
Author: Jules Renard
(Writer)
| Keywords:
astound, astounded, astounding, astounds, come upon, eagerness, egoist, selfish, to be filled
«I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(Judge, Jurist)
| Keywords:
altruistic, bird-on-the-wing, confess, cynically, infinitely, in focus, on that, on the wing, selfish, unreal, whatsoever, wing
