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#1

“The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

tags: feelings, giving, happiness, selfishness, selflessness

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#2

“Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.”
― George Eliot

tags: selfishness

256 likes

#3

“Love is always ready to deny itself, to give, sacrifice, just in the measure of its sincerity and intensity. Perfect love is perfect self-forgetfulness. Hence where there is love in a home, unselfishness is the law. Each forgets self and lives for others.

But where there is selfishness it mars joy. One selfish soul will destroy the sweetness of life in any home. It is like an ugly bush in the midst of a garden of flowers. It was selfishness that destroyed the first home and blighted all the loveliness of Paradise; and it has been blighting lovely things in earth's home ever since. We need to guard against this spirit.”
― J.R. Miller

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#4

“Love is the most selfish of all the passions.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

tags: love, passions, selfishness

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#5

“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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#6

“Nobody knows you as well as our spouse. And that means no one will be quicker to recognize a change when you deliberately start sacrificing your wants and wishes to make sure his or her needs are met. ”
― Stephen Kendrick, The Love Dare

tags: marriage, sacrifice, selfishness, selflessness

102 likes

#7

“Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: cause-of-trouble, government, greed, national-troubles, problems, problems-in-the-world, selfishness, trouble, troubles, wisdom

88 likes

#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

168 likes

#9

“A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it.”
― Ashly Lorenzana, Sex, Drugs, and Being an Escort

tags: kindness, selfishness

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#10

“When you're here, I'm there for you. And when you're there, I'm here for you.”
― Jarod Kintz, Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

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#11

“Better not to plant seeds of selfishness than try to eradicate them once they have grown into giant weeds. (91)”
― Prem Prakash, The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras (Transformational Bo

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#12

“...I committed a sin the day I refused you - I discovered metal inside me where my heart should be - forgive me, Love, for acting on principles...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

tags: hard-hearted, love, refusal, repentance, selfishness, sin

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#13

“I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?”
― Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana

tags: countries, love, loyalty, nationality, politics, war

331 likes

#14

“Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.”
― Confucius, The Analects

tags: faithfulness, loyalty, sincerity

409 likes

#15

“Your truest friends are the ones who will stand by you in your darkest moments--because they're willing to brave the shadows with you--and in your greatest moments--because they're not afraid to let you shine.”
― Nicole Yatsonsky

tags: friends, friendship, love, loyalty, truth

426 likes

#16

“We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 28: The Illustrated London News, 1908-1910

tags: brotherhood-of-man, interdependence, loyalty

464 likes

#17

“Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

tags: loyalty

350 likes

#18

“I don't like to give up on people when they need someone not to give up on them.”
― Carroll Bryant

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#19

“Love -- not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.”
― Vera Nazarian, Salt of the Air

tags: affection, love, loyalty, perception, true-love, unconditional, unconditional-love

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#20

“If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

(Get Out or Get in Line, 1928)”
― Elbert Hubbard, Works of Elbert Hubbard. Includes A Message to Garcia, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, The Mintage and Love, Life & Work

tags: cleverness, loyalty

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#21

“But what are loyalty and caring really worth?"
"To me? Everything.”
― Richelle Mead, The Golden Lily

tags: adrian-ivashkov, caring, friendship, inspirational-attitude, life, loving-others, loyalty, relationships, sydney-sage, true-to-life, trust

130 likes

#22

“A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.”
― Joyce Maynard, Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties

tags: loyalty

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#23

“Loyalty cannot be blueprinted. It cannot be produced on an assembly line. In fact, it cannot be manufactured at all, for its origin is the human heart -- the center of self-respect and human dignity. It is a force which leaps into being only when conditions are exactly right for it -- and it is a force very sensitive to betrayal.”
― Maurice Franks

tags: loyalty

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#24

“Loyalty. Is it something only dogs know?
When I think of it, I wonder if I would rather have it than love. Whereas love is often an over-used word and an unpredictable feeling, the other is nothing but dependability.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

tags: dependability, love, loyalty

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#25

“Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.”
― Samuel Butler, Hudibras

tags: loyalty

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#26

“Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

tags: betrayal, loyalty, respect, trust

178 likes

#27

“Trust, once lost, could not be easily found. Not in a year, perhaps not even in a lifetime.”
― J.E.B. Spredemann, An Unforgivable Secret

tags: betrayal, disloyalty, loyalty, trust

144 likes

#28

“As you grow older, you realize it becomes less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones.

People nowadays don't know the true meaning of friendship and loyalty.

People always suddenly miss you more once they see how much happier you are without them.

Learn the real from the fake....and don't worry about the mistakes you make.

There are no mistakes in life, just lessons.

The only people worthy to be in your life are the ones that help you through the hard times and laugh with you after the hard times pass.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

tags: fake, friends, friendship, loyalty, real

95 likes

#29

“I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree.”
― D.R. Silva

tags: agreement, compromise, disagreement, freedom, loyalty, truth

107 likes