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“It can all end in a moment. Take for yourself now what tomorrow might not give you.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Falling Down

“What I find hilarious is that these people looking for ego death, who want to become so enlightened are usually those with the most enormous egos. The huge egos seeking the egolessness, in order to show off how enlightened they are, all they want is to post on social media or write books about their journey. They actually want to find in it a way to seem selfless while still getting some selfish pleasure out of it. And then they have the guts to lecture you on selflessness!”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“Selfish is the most likely thing to become if you've been abandoned, I think. Being abandoned means you don't think anyone else is really there for you when it comes down to it. So it's just you. Yourself. Being how you would be if there was no one else there.”
― Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

“Making the world a better place is not making the world my better place.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Abandonment is sacrifice thrown into reverse.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Greed makes us narrow,
Greed shrinks our soul.
Beyond greed lies gallantry,
Beyond greed all is whole.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“Be a gentle giant like the elephant, not an opportunistic carnivore like the wolf. The elephant doesn't harm anyone to prove its greatness, while the wolf doesn't think twice to devour another wolf.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Worst of all carnivores are the humans,
There is no end to their appetite.
Animals no longer partake once they are full,
While human greed knows no sane height.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“More clothes, more cars, more cash,
Just how much will you consider enough!
Till you put a cork on cocky abundance,
Not felicity but disparity wreaks havoc.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Is there anything else you need my assistance with?'

'Need? No.' His head turned to the side. A lock of bronze hair fell against his cheek. 'Want? Yes. But that would be selfish of me. I prefer to be greedy.'

'Are they not the same thing?'

'Not in my opinion. Greedy is not necessarily a solitary act,' he replied.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“Selfishness is death by consumption of self.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The individual is born good. However, our society is not. This seemingly paradoxical phenomenon is due to the fact that societal norms reward those who are 'selficated', the habitual or normalized mindset to practice selfishness. In other words, selfication is the process by which an individual is habituated into a selfish mode of existence.”
― Billy Poon, The Selficated Society: Why We Are Depressed in the Modern Age and How You Can Break Free from Suffering to Live a Life Worthwhile

“We are selficated to the extent that alternatives prove irrational and normalcy is the temptation to believe there is no other way.”
― Billy Poon, The Selficated Society: Why We Are Depressed in the Modern Age and How You Can Break Free from Suffering to Live a Life Worthwhile

“Happiness shared is happiness human,
Happiness hoarded is happiness animal.
To share and to care are the sign of life,
To hoard and to hate are the sign of animal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“When a person life is a world
of complaints, they carry that
attitude with them, most things
are never as perfect as they desire.
Most people understand, nothing
is perfect, and look at the complainer
as the seeker of attention or just
selfish and unaware. No one likes
a complainer. What happens is
life's reflection will give this person
something to really complain about.
The attitude we show the world will
always return to us.”
― Ron Baratono

“Being selfish is not always about money.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose

“If the lie becomes our truth, so does our destruction.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Revolution and selfishness are interrelated. Sometimes, it happens because the rulers are selfish; sometimes, the protesters are!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

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― Md. Ziaul Haque

“Even a thousand acts of kindness can be undone by a single unintentional harm, revealing the fragility of trust in human relationships, and the harsh truth stares into one's eyes that humans are often so self-centered and selfish that reliability and reciprocity seems an illusion in this world.”
― Renuka Goria

“Everyone is selfish in various ways. Indeed, it is tough to accept and say I am selfish.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“The god that we need to be in denial of is the one that we purport to be.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Least capable people are most selfish.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Apes loot and call it victory,
Humans sacrifice and call it life.
While ants hoard all for themselves,
Giants find meaning in giving light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Thanksgiving demands that we set aside the cultural narrative and be thankful for all of the things that the narrative says are not enough.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We chase stuff in an effort to give our lives something they don’t have despite the fact that we’re not even sure what that is or how much of it we need.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Greatest freedom is freedom from selfishness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“The older you become, you start to learn that people are naturally selfish, they mostly give what they do not value in exchange of what they value.”
― Khuliso Mamathoni

“Greed will feed you full of starvation.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Mankind is averse to true wisdom because it will demand of us what we prefer not to give. Therefore we craft something that will give us everything that we want, and this we call wisdom.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough