Quotes About Selfish Relationships

#1. The challenge and the energy running requires may be a selfish one, but it actually motivates me to be stronger in my relationships.

Joan Benoit

#2. Relationships based on selfish reasons will not give you love, fulfillment or inner-happiness.

Hina Hashmi

#3. It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love; it is the aim of the action.

M. Scott Peck

#4. Technically I have siblings, but they are quite a bit older than me - I was the accident - so I have the only-child syndrome going on. I'm a little more selfish, a little more independent, a little closed. I do wish I were softer. I wish I were able to form relationships better.

Carrie Underwood

#5. When it's about your life, it's time to be selfish.

Dee Dee Artner

#6. Remember, your goodness as a person isn't based on how much you give in relationships, and it isn't selfish to set limits on people who keep on taking.

Lindsay C. Gibson

#7. Setting boundaries is a way of caring for myself. It doesn't make me mean, selfish, or uncaring because I don't do things your way. I care about me too.

Christine Morgan

#8. Romantic love is the most selfish of all emotions.

Ellen Kenner

#9. No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#10. To really touch something, is to love it.

Anthony Doerr

#11. I want to find someone who's really magnetic but who isn't going to do anything bad to me. It's hard.

Lana Del Rey

#12. Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#13. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns and derives from love.

Ayn Rand

#14. Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#15. Sometimes you think you're helping someone up, but they're actually pulling you down. This is the painful dynamic of dealing with someone who is incurably selfish.

Steve Maraboli

#16. Your soulmate wasn't suppose to be perfect. You were meant to see the cracks in her soul and fill them with what you have and she was meant to see yours. Together you would be complete.

Shannon L. Alder

#17. Prudence's flat was in the kind of block where Jane imagined people might be found dead, though she had never said this to Prudence herself; it seemed rather a macabre fancy and not one to be confided to an unmarried woman living alone.

Barbara Pym

#18. Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.

Paul Reiser

#19. We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.

Bill Bradley

#20. Age continually alters the faces of those who think or study, and so their portraits differ from one another and don't even resemble them for very long. I dream so much and live so little that I'm sometimes only three years old. But the next day I'm three hundred, if the dream has been sombre.

George Sand

#21. If your heart, mind, and actions are selfish, they will ultimately divide you, others, or entire [establishments]. When motivation is pure and selfless, it will result in helping bring others together.

A.J. Darkholme

#22. If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one.

Kurt Vonnegut

#23. I've always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.

Jimmy Chamberlin

#24. Selfish people tend to only be good to themselves ... then are surprised when they are alone.

Steve Maraboli

#25. A broken women has nothing to offer a whole man. A broken man has nothing to offer a whole women. Why? The successful relationship is predicated on each person coming to the union to give, give, give ... this is the perfect formula for success! Broken people are needy and selfish!!

Mz Liz

#26. Crabbe or Goyle - or, come to think of it, another Death Eater, he'll have loads better cronies than Crabbe and Goyle now he's joined up

J.K. Rowling

#27. Selfish love hurts, selfless love heals.

Rob Liano