Mama's "Truesdays Quotes"--- on SELFISHNESS

It's  "Truesday" quote time!  The subject is SELFISHNESS. In light of the ME generations we have become part of or are teaching/raising,  maybe we should listen to some of these:/  In our haste to find THINGS to make us think we are SOMETHING, I think we forget that we are HUMAN BEINGS!



Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Khalil Gibran

“In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.”
― David Mitchell


“There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.”
― Samuel Johnson


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


Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.


The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
Francis Wright


“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



“Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.”
― Criss Jami





“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