I am a very selfish person. - Lara Flynn Boyle Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. - Erich Fromm People think that you are a nasty, selfish person if you dont want to have children. - Janeane Garofalo I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means. - Janos Kadar Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave. - Janos Kadar A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down. - Rosamund Lupton What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation, God in the human and human in God and ...

Oh, very simple," Derek jeered. "It doesn't matter that I was born a bastard. She deserves nothing better than a man with a false name, fine clothes, and a sham accent. It's not important that I have no family and no religion. I don't believe in sacred causes, or honor, or unselfish motives. I can't be innocent enough for her. I never was. But why should that matter to her? - Lisa Kleypas I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. - Charles Dudley Warner If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets. - Sachin Tendulkar

Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful. - Mortimer Adler and when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt-this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life no matter how slight. - Elizabeth Gilbert I felt a glimmer of happiness when I started studying Italian, and when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt-this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight - Elizabeth Gilbert An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some ev...

I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It isn't that I think myself so important... I simply can't think about anything else, that's all. If I could fall in love with a woman that might help some. But I can't find a woman who interests me. - Henry Miller I'm not selfish. I'd gladly give someone's life, a more valuable life than my own, while I humbly preserve and keep my own meager life for myself. - Jarod Kintz

I am. selfish. I am brave. I am Divergent. - Veronica Roth I am selfish. I am brave. - Veronica Roth I am cruel and I am selfish, but this need I have inside me, this need for you and no other, is stronger than anything else I've ever encountered. I doubt two years of lockup would dull it in the slightest. - Gena Showalter I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem? - Neil Gaiman I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess. - Robert Mapplethorpe Oh, I will be cruel to you, Marya Morevna. It will stop your breath, how cruel I can be. But you understand, don't you? You are clever enough. I am a demanding creature. I am selfish and cruel and extremely unreasonable. But I am your servant. When you starve I will feed you; when you are sick I will tend you. I crawl at your feet; for before your love, your kisses, I am debased. For you alone I will be weak. - Catherynne M Valente

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless. - Edward Albert I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish... You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger. - Simone De Beauvoir Men tend to be selfish. - Caprice Bourret I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people. - Russell Brand Gods tend to be selfish. Even when they're helpful, they always have their own motives. That's why you have to be careful about trusting them. - Rick Riordan Be selfish, be unreasonable, and don't worry about it. We're girls, so we are allowed. Being a girl is a privilege, and we should take full advantage of that fact. We have the ...