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“Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.”
― Wanda, Countess von Szalras.
― Wanda, Countess von Szalras.
“Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.”
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Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.”
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“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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