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“The only gift I have to give, is the ability to receive. If giving is a gift, and it surely is, then my gift to you is to allow you to give to me.”
― Jarod Kintz, The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.

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#2

“But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: selfish

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#3

“At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving to attract and captivate, regardless of the injury it may do the man--was in me; and when I found I had caught you, I was frightened. And then--I don't know how it was-- I couldn't bear to let you go--possibly to Arabella again--and so I got to love you, Jude. But you see, however fondly it ended, it began in the selfish and cruel wish to make your heart ache for me without letting mine ache for you.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

tags: craving, cruel, deception, flirting, heartbreaker, heartbroken, love, lying, selfish, sue-bridehead

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#4

“Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

tags: c-s-lewis, god, happy, love, selfish, selfishness

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#5

“A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: attention, discontent, disrespect, food-industry, food-service, inconsiderate, insecurity, king, labor, ordinary-people, restaurants, royalty, selfish, service, waiter, waitress

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#6

“But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.”
― Melina Marchetta, The Piper's Son

tags: comfort, georgie, grieving, lucia, selfish

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“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.”
― John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy

tags: ethics, fight, foreign-policy, injustice, inspirational, justice, morality, motivational, patriotic, safety, selfish, tyranny, war, will

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#8

“Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: arrogance, body-language, business, cocky, communication, egotism, hate, inferiority, insult, nonexistent, offensive, pride, selfish, silence-communication, superiority

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#9

“A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.”
― Daniel Wallace, The Kings and Queens of Roam

tags: decieve, helping-others, intention, liar, lies, selfish, storyteller, storytelling

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#10

“One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.”
― Mike Norton, Just Another War Story

tags: addiction, die, dig, digging, escape, evil, foolishness, fortification, giving, good, help, helping, helping-hand, hurt, kindness, man, pain, recovery, sacrifice, seflessness, self-destruction, selfish, selfishness, thanksgiving

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#11

“The first two letters of her name were M and E and I thought, Yes! Finally, a name I can relate to.”
― Jarod Kintz, $3.33

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#12

“My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present one, meaninglessly like the present one, I would disappear from the earth. And all these emotions, all these yearnings, all these data, if that helps to clinch the enormity of what I'm talking about, would be gone. And that's what immortality means. It means selfishness. My generations belief that each one of us matters more than you or anyone else would think.”
― Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story

tags: aging, belief, generation, immortality, selfish, selfishness, think

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#13

“[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer's views of love are flawed. Love can't be merely an illusion of the mind to aid in procreation, but the path to redemption for an otherwise violently selfish species. Past human greatness has proven that when challenged, love can overpower impulsive instinct, and in essence, the vilest aspects of our nature.”
― Tiffany Madison

tags: challenge, essence, flaw, human, human-condition, human-nature, humanity, illusion, instinct, instincts, love, lover, mind, nature, overpower, power, procreation, redemption, schopenhauer, schopenhauer-as-educator, selfish, species, violence, violent

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#15

“Teamwork: I love the idea of all for one—especially if that one is me.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

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