You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.
You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.
To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
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