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“Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.”
― Hermann Hesse, Gertrude

“Sometimes problems don’t require a solution to solve them; instead they require maturity to outgrow them.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“If you’re any good at all, you know you can be better.”
― Lindsay Buckingham

“We both have a lot of growing-up to do... A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own." -- Leo”
― Emily Giffin, Love The One You're With

“To the immature, other people are not real.”
― Harry and Bonaro Overstreet

“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves. ”
― Stephen Kendrick, The Love Dare

“Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.”
― Ouida, Wanda, Countess von Szalras.

“There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.”
― Lydia Davis

“Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect”
― George Sand, Indiana

“ The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

“To belittle, you have to be little.”
― Kahill Gibran, The Prophet