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«To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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Joy,
Love,
Risk
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«Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.»
«My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
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alternation, ambivalence, blissful, edged, exquisite, gratification, guiltless, intolerance, monster, murderous, nerves, raw, resentment, selfishness, tenderness, The Suffering, tiny
«Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.»
«It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility. from The Scarlet Letter»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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«Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.»
«Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is greatly overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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appreciated, nay, overrate, overrated, overrates, overrating, philanthropy, selfishness, sufficiently
«Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself»
«Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
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desires, embrace, manifest, manifesting, plainness, reduce, selfishness, simplicities, simplicity
«Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Selfishness
| Keywords:
asking, living, selfishness, wishes
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