In This Selfish World Quotes

#1. A person can perhaps trust his eyes only to the amount of truth his heart does not mind to speak openly to the people to touch their souls in this selfish world full of lies.

Anuj

#2. In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

George Graham Vest

#3. This over-consumption is also manifest in our use of raw materials. It can even be found in our dietary habits ... People are well aware of this. The root of the problem lies in a selfish world view which inflates personal consumption beyond the essential.

Yehuda Levi

#4. When you pray for your wife, it keeps the world at bay, it transforms selfish hearts, and it derails the devil's plans.

Stormie O'martian

#5. We all make choices, Cossack. Who we are in this world, what we do in it. Generous or selfish. Happy or sad. Good or evil. It's all down to choice.

Anthony Horowitz

#6. I have little left in myself
I must have you. The world may laugh
may call me absurd, selfish
but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.

Charlotte Bronte

#7. In this lifetime you're nothing more than you appear to be: a stupid, selfish, ignorant, spoiled little girl who thinks the world lives or dies on whether she gets to go out with some good-looking boy at school ... I'd still relish this moment ... killing you.

Lauren Kate

#8. There are two types of humans in this world: those who function so they can get something and those who function so they can give something.

Sarah Noffke

#9. If everyone begins to think selfishly, the world becomes a wicked world.

Sunday Adelaja

#10. Please hold onto your kindess,
we share the world with many selfish beings
And we need open hearts to create change.

Nikki Rowe

#11. God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.

William Nicholson

#12. The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. Will you live an empty and bitter life, a selfish and profane life, because something precious was denied you? Will you waste every chance for honor and happiness given you in this world simply because you have been thwarted?

Anne Rice

#14. In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love.

Masashi Kishimoto

#15. Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in heaven. To succeed in this world, you have to be known to people.

Sonia Sotomayor

#16. 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.

Anita Brookner

#17. You have endless energy only when you are working for the good of the whole - you have to stop working for your little selfish interests. That's the secret of it. In this world you are given as you give.

Peace Pilgrim

#18. His ready answer impressed me, reiterating my belief that one of the reasons I required a boyfriend was to halve my ignorance and double my chances of understanding the world and myself.

Bob Smith

#19. You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself - without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat.

Anonymous

#20. Today, our air, food, water-all are polluted. If we do not stop exploiting nature for our temporary selfish gains, we will destroy the world.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#21. Arts and disciplines of that kind are fundamentally selfish; they're all designed to benefit the pupil - not the world - "Ishmael

Daniel Quinn

#22. The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

Henry Ward Beecher