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Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

Honoré de Balzac

Amor deliria nervosa isn’t a disease of love. It’s a disease of selfishness.

Lauren Oliver

It is one’s own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Ayn Rand

One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.

Andy Murray

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

Aristotle

Selfishness doesn’t consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

Aristotle

Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.

Madame Roland

The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person’s excessive love of self.

Plato

Every time we give in to selfishness and say “No” to God, we spoil his loving plan for us.

Pope Francis

We are all so self-obsessed, not really helping others as we should, spreading the love so to speak.

Princess Superstar

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Helen Keller

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