Selfish Quotes

“What scared her were other people and their immovable selfishness”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

“Your ego will tell you that it’s not egotistical.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Did you think a wishing well would be full of noble feelings? A wish is pure desire, Lizzy. You're old enough to know that people seldom want what's good for them. Or anyone else, for that matter.”
― Jake Wyatt, The Well

“We live in a world where takers no longer care about the long-term effects of their selfishness. They are more than willing to keep taking, without even thinking about the needs of the givers. That is why givers need to be well-prepared to look after themselves because if they don’t, nobody can do that for them.”
― ThandazoPerfectKhumalo

“Love was the same way. The higher the stakes, the more impossible the odds, the more eager she was to up the ante. It was the one thing the two sisters had in common.
“That gold is as good as mine,” Death said. “Humans are selfish creatures who can always be counted on to do the wrong thing. Shall I tell you how the story ends? The Beast is horrible to Belle, she abandons him, the last petal falls. Fini.”
Love jutted her chin. “You have no idea how the story ends. You’re not its author. Sometimes kindness and gentleness win.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

“Unapologetic, unsympathetic, equivocal and selfish, a few people are; stop expecting and move on.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Slate

“Do we give gifts, or do we dispense items? The difference? With the former we’re giving part of ourselves, with the latter we’re not giving ourselves or anything else for that matter.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Recklessly feeding all of our passions is failing to recognize that our greatest passion should be to starve them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Frantically feeding all of our assorted passions is failing to recognize that our greatest passion should be to starve them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Any narrative that we write is a narrative that we will eventually need to be saved from, with the exception of this one.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Do you not understand that your greed is the very thing that will destroy both you and the thing to which your greed has driven you? And if your greed is so strong as to deny these irrefutably realities, then maybe you will need to be destroyed so that you might be saved.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Cowardice is to couch our selfish actions in the finery of such noble phrases as bravery and determination. Yet the worst cowardice of all is our refusal to admit to the illegitimate use of such words.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“According to many experts the majority of the people won't be needed anymore for the coming society. Almost everything will be done by artificial intelligence, including self-driving cars and trucks, which already exist anyway. Some even mentioned that AI is making universities obsolete by how fast it can produce information. However, In my view, the AI has limitations that the many can't see, because on a brain to brain comparison, the AI always wins, yet the AI can only compute with programmable data. In other words, the AI can think like a human but can't imagine or create a future. The AI is always codependent on the imagination of its user. So the limitations of the AI are in fact determined by humans. It is not bad that we have AI but that people have no idea of how to use it apart from replacing their mental faculties and being lazy. This is actually why education has always been a scam. The AI will simply remove that from the way. But knowledge will still require analysis and input of information, so the AI doesn't really replace the necessary individuals of the academic world, but merely the many useless ones that keep copying and plagiarizing old ideas to justify and validate a worth they don't truly possess. Being afraid and paranoid about these transitions doesn't make sense because evolution can't be stopped, only delayed. The problem at the moment has more to do with those who want to keep themselves in power by force and profiting from the transitions. The level of consciousness of humanity is too low for what is happening, which is why people are easily deceived. Consequently, there will be more anger, fear, and frustration, because for the mind that is fixed on itself, change is perceived as chaos. The suffering is then caused by emotional attachments, stubbornness and the paranoid fixation on using outdated systems and not knowing how to adapt properly. In essence, AI is a problem for the selfish mind - rooted in cognitive rationalizations -, but an opportunity of great value for the self-reflective mind - capable of a metacognitive analysis. And the reason why nobody seems to understand this is precisely because, until now, everyone separated the mind from the spirit, while not knowing how a spiritual ascension actually goes through the mind. And this realization, obviously, will turn all religions obsolete too. Some have already come to this conclusion, and they are the ones who are ready.”
― Dan Desmarques

“The only time that God will kneel in the face of our selfish choices is to lift us out of the consequences of those choices.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I don the cape of superiority and swoop in to save those which I hold as inferior, I would be wise to realize that the cape is probably something akin to a cheap tablecloth and my superiority as rickety as the folding table that I stole it from.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If God gave you everything that you wanted, you would have nothing that you need. And in that case, you would end up with neither.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don't be so ignorant as to think that what we're exercising is freedom if we've bled it of morals, purged it of wisdom, declared it to be our right, and bent it to serve our agendas. This is not the exercise of freedom. Rather, this is the birth of anarchy.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Richness is not found in changing something that does not suit our preferences or orientation. Rather, real richness is found in understanding there is a definitive purpose that will be sacrificed in the changing that the changing will never make up for.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“God doesn’t change because He’s set in His ways. He doesn’t change because He is out to save us from the fact that we are set in ours.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You must think you're really something. Calling yourself a phenomenon.”
― Yukiko Motoya, The Lonesome Bodybuilder

“When the spoiled child within us is bent on ranting until they get what they want, the best punishment might be to give it to them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Beware the seductive allure of the selfish souls, for their tendrils entangle your conscience, forging guilt as you attempt to break free.”
― Sreena K.S., The Unapologetical Abyss

“Setelah melewati begitu banyak kegagalan, saya baru menyadari bahwa penyebab kegagalan saya yang terutama adalah karena saya terlalu banyak memikirkan diri sendiri dan terlalu fokus pada tujuan dan pencapaian saya sendiri.”
― Titon Rahmawan

“Some people will kill all your feelings and emotions to call you a selfish.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Tears dripped down my face as I realized He died for me when I was at my worst. He didn’t die for a good, well-put-together man, He loved and died for a junkie kid who was selfish. Not only did He die for me when I was snorting ketamine off a girl’s butt and being a sleaze bag, but He made sure she sat on the ketamine so that when I snorted it, there wasn’t enough to kill me.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

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

“Silly. Silly thought. Silly me. Nothing is ever about me.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“The exercise of our freedoms as driven by the dictates of our greed will eventually undermine the very structures that gave us the ability to exercise those freedoms. And I for one do not wish to expend my life fighting to regain the freedoms that we never should have lost because we chose to be the fools that we never should have been.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We can deny the destructive nature of our choices. And we can deny the consequences of those choices even when they litter the landscape of our lives and our culture with the burning wreckage of our foolishness. But are we ignorant enough to die by the hand of the ignorance that we’ve perpetually fed because it serves our agenda, or do we wish to live by letting it starve so that it’s no longer feeding on us?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Isn’t it interesting that many of the agendas that we seem to be willing to die for are killing us anyway?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough