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“The selfish are seldom secure.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Greed is the thief of the soul.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Be assured that whatever it is, there will be nothing ‘in it for meâ€� if I approach it from the perspective of ‘what’s in it for me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The world is not mine for the taking. Rather, it is mine for the giving.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“This administrator of trade is the worst sort of bureaucrat. He abides by every rule, delights in making his own whenever it can inconvenience someone, and at the same time believes that he is doing goodâ€� I didn’t think I would ever meet a noble who wasn’t corrupt. Now that I have I find that I prefer them when they’re greedy bastards. - Brom”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

“Yes, there are times when the world turns upside down, logic becomes subject to the muse of reckless interpretation, truth becomes the bed-child of selfish goals, and people are off on a wild course that bludgeons everyone they once loved or anyone who gets in the way of what they now purport to love.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“THE INSTRUCTION OF PTAHHOTEP
Part III

Report your commission without faltering,
Give your advice in your master’s council.
If he is fluent in his speech,
It will not be hard for the envoy to report,
Nor will he be answered, "Who is he to know it ?�
As to the master, his affairs will fail
If he plans to punish him for it.
He should be silent upon (hearing): "I have told.�

If you are a man who leads.
Whose authority reaches wide,
You should do outstanding things,
Remember the day that comes after.
No strife will occur in the midst of honors,
But where the crocodile enters hatred arises.

If you are a man who leads.
Listen calmly to the speech of one who pleads;
Don’t stop him from purging his body
Of that which he planned to tell.
A man in distress wants to pour out his heart
More than that his case be won.
About him who stops a plea
One says: “Why does he reject it ?�
Not all one pleads for can be granted,
But a good hearing soothes the heart.

If you want friendship to endure
In the house you enter
As master, brother, or friend,
In whatever place you enter,
Beware of approaching the women!
Unhappy is the place where it is done.
Unwelcome is he who intrudes on them.
A thousand men are turned away from their good:
A short moment like a dream,
Then death comes for having known them.
Poor advice is “shoot the opponent,�
When one goes to do it the heart rejects it.
He who fails through lust of them,
No affair of his can prosper.

If you want a perfect conduct,
To be free from every evil,
Guard against the vice of greed:
A grievous sickness without cure,
There is no treatment for it.
It embroils fathers, mothers,
And the brothers of the mother,
It parts wife from husband;
It is a compound of all evils,
A bundle of all hateful things.
That man endures whose rule is rightness,
Who walks a straight line;
He will make a will by it,
The greedy has no tomb.

Do not be greedy in the division.
Do not covet more than your share;
Do not be greedy toward your kin.
The mild has a greater claim than the harsh.
Poor is he who shuns his kin,
He is deprived of 'interchange'
Even a little of what is craved
Turns a quarreler into an amiable man.

When you prosper and found your house,
And love your wife with ardor,
Fill her belly, clothe her back,
Ointment soothes her body.
Gladden her heart as long as you live,
She is a fertile held for her lord.
Do not contend with her in court,
Keep her from power, restrain her �
Her eye is her storm when she gazes �
Thus will you make her stay in your house.

Sustain your friends with what you have,
You have it by the grace of god;
Of him who fails to sustain his friends
One says, “a selfish ka".
One plans the morrow but knows not what will be,
The ( right) ka is the ka by which one is sustained.
If praiseworthy deeds are done,
Friends will say, “welcome!�
One does not bring supplies to town,
One brings friends when there is need.

Do not repeat calumny.
Nor should you listen to it,
It is the spouting of the hot-bellied.
Report a thing observed, not heard,
If it is negligible, don’t say anything.
He who is before you recognizes worth.
lf a seizure is ordered and carried out,
Hatred will arise against him who seizes;
Calumny is like a dream against which one covers the face.

If you are a man of worth,
Who sits in his master’s council.
Concentrate on excellence,
Your silence is better than chatter.
Speak when you know you have a solution,
It is the skilled who should speak in council;
Speaking is harder than all other work.
He who understands it makes it serve.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“There's nothing worse, than having a scratch you cannot itch.”
― Robert Black

“The unworthy and greedy people do not weary running after the wealth. As an ending result, they are for no one, even not for themselves.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“It doesn’t take much intelligence to understand that obedience to greed can make us a slave to stupidity. Yet, I think that the power of greed is amply illustrated by simply taking note of how many intelligent people have chosen slavery.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The greatest cause involves the decision not to make myself the greatest cause.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Men’s slaves, their hearts are greedy,
The great do not mingle with their people when they rejoice.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“To whom shall I speak today ?
Brothers are mean,
The friends of today do not love.
To whom shall I speak today?
Hearts are greedy,
Everyone robs his comrade's goods.
To whom shall I speak today ?
Kindness has perished,
Insolence assaults everyone.
To whom shall I speak today ?
One is content with evil,
Goodness is cast to the ground everywhere. To whom shall I speak today?
He who should enrage men by his crimes � He makes everyone laugh at his evildoing. To whom shall I speak today ?
Men plunder,
Everyone robs his comrade.
To whom shall I speak today ?
The criminal is one’s intimate,
The brother with whom one dealt is a foe.
To whom shall I speak today ?
The past is not remembered,
Now one does not help him who helped.
To whom shall I speak today ?
Brothers are mean,
One goes to strangers for affection.
To whom shall I speak today?
Faces are blank,
Everyone turns his face from his brothers.
To whom shall I speak today ?
Hearts are greedy,
No man’s heart can be relied on.
To whom shall I speak today ?
None are righteous,
The land is left to evildoers.
To whom shall I speak today ?
One lacks an intimate,
One resorts to an unknown to complain.
To whom shall I speak today ?
No one is cheerful,
He with whom one walked is no more.
To whom shall I speak today ?
I am burdened with grief
For lack of an intimate.
To whom shall I speak today ?
Wrong roams the earth,
And ends not.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“Being my own cause is to position the world around me so that the entirety of it would be at my disposal. And if there’s one way to rather quickly and efficiently dispose of my life, this would be it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I’m the only person at my party it’s probably because the party is about one person. And if it’s only about one person, it’s not a party.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Greed is the unhealthy preoccupation for money or power. It is when your heart becomes morbidly obsessed with something good, such as a stock, that it produces harmful results. Greed is not a financial issue but it’s an issue of the heart.”
― Gary Rohrmayer, 21-Day Journey Toward a Generous Life

“Patience is where we choose to enjoy the view instead of run off the cliff.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Putting myself first is in fact putting myself in a position that is anything but first.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I refuse to sacrifice for fear of what I will lose. But to not sacrifice is to insure that I will lose.”
― Craig D Lounsbrough

“Namun, kau tahu manusia kan? Manusia memang memiliki tingkat ketamakan dan kemunafikannya sendiri.”
― Ayu Welirang, Rumah Kremasi: Kumpulan Cerita Pendek

“I will be the first to confess that I have too often let my desires run as a spoiled child in the gluttonous pursuit of some rogue agenda that I have skillfully justified as enhancing the greater good, when in fact it enhances nothing more than my greater good. And when I force myself away from the pithy arguments and the reeking pabulum that I have cleverly crafted to justify these actions, I find myself standing toe-to-toe with the very monster that I have so ardently advocated for. And more times than I can tell you, I find myself standing in this place shamed beyond the scope of words to express. And until I submit the barking agenda of my ‘goodâ€� to the ‘greatnessâ€� of God’s character, I will die at the hands of this most horrific cycle.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I live life as some barter system, I will in fact never have given anything away except the opportunity to really live.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Would that I knew what others ignore,
Such as has not been repeated,
To say it and have my heart answer me,
To inform it of my distress.
Shift to it the load on my back,
The matters that afflict me.
Relate to it of what I suffer
And sigh “Ah" with relief!
of meditate on what has happened,
The events that occur throughout the land: Changes take place, it is not like last year,
One year is more irksome than the other.
The land breaks up, is destroyed.
Becomes [a wasteland].
Order is cast out,
Chaos is in the council hail ;
The ways of the gods are violated,
Their provisions neglected.
The land is in turmoil.
There is mourning everywhere;
Towns, districts are grieving,
All alike are burdened by wrongs.
One turns one’s back on dignity.
The lords of silence are disturbed;
As dawn comes every day.
The face recoils from events.
I cry out about it,
My limbs are weighed down,
I grieve in my heart.
It is hard to keep silent about it,
Another heart would bend;
But a heart strong in distress:
It is a comrade to its lord.
Had I a heart skilled in hardship,
I would take my rest upon it.
Weigh it down with words of grief.
Lay on it my malady!
He said to his heart:
Come, my heart, I speak to you.

Answer me my sayings!
Unravel for me what goes on in the land,
Why those who shone are overthrown.
I meditate on what has happened:
While trouble entered in today,
And turmoil will not cease tomorrow,
Everyone is mute about it.
The whole land is in great distress,
Nobody is free from erime;
Hearts are greedy.
He who gave orders takes orders,
And the hearts of both submit.
One wakes to it every day.
And the hearts do not reject it.
Yesterday's condition is like today’s
None is wise enough to know it,
None angry enough to cry out,
One wakes to suffer each day.
My malady is long and heavy.
The sufferer lacks strength to save himself
From that which overwhelms him.
It is pain to be silent to what one hears,
It is futile to answer the ignorant.
To reject a speech makes enmity;
The heart does not accept the truth,
One cannot bear a statement of fact,
A man loves only his own words.
Everyone builds on crookedness,
Right-speaking is abandoned.
I spoke to you, my heart, answer you me,
A heart addressed must not be silent,
Lo, servant and master fare alike,
There is much that weighs upon you!”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“To give our lives over to the pursuit of making our greed look like it’s something other than greed so that we can feel good about not being good is to find ourselves in the pursuit of one of the greediest things imaginable.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If life is always my party, I’ll never need to order much food.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between brothers.”
― Suzy Kassem

“If the outcome of our years lived serves us, I would suggest that we haven’t lived.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Greed can be the unwillingness to give OR the willingness to take.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Some folks are so busy stuffing their face that they don’t see their neighbor starving.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“If I demand that I be the captain of my own ship, I’ll probably be spending most of my time in a lifeboat. And if I then demand to be the captain of the lifeboat, I’ll probably be spending all of my time being the lunch of something that doesn’t care that I’m a captain.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough