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It's not selfish to take your time for yourself if you're using it to better your life
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If you're using it to better your life and you’re making the lives of those around you better in the process, that’s not selfish
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However we have almost no jokes around our saints and the thousands of ‘Gods’ we have created for selfish ends like making money on their name
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We have become selfish individuals, taking all decisions based on materialistic considerations and adopted a culture marketed by others
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And God is going to say, “Do you really think I put you there on earth to live a selfish little clod of a life?”
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Using power for selfish motives or telling someone else about confidential information you had been entrusted with is against Asteya
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All thru the time I spent with Ava she kicked him around as arrogant and selfish
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An example of selfish and impoverished leadership can be seen in the hearts of the
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The selfish child in me ran riot
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I was still deep in the fugue of selfish misery, and I barely comprehended the importance of this simple movement
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Ben was, in short, nowhere near selfish enough to survive well in such circumstances as these, unlike himself and grumpy Marwan
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are small, selfish, materialistic, and not spiritual, or that we are
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Alan taking the responsibility for his own tasks and also being considerate of others, Nuran shirking her own tasks, taking others for granted and pleading with others to shirk theirs for her own selfish reasons
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selfish scheme of things, I suffered the most
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I was selfish
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False pride is selfish
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some would use these skills to fill a void in their heart where Conscience should be and exercise that power to influence others, but you must not succumb to such a temptation, our service is in humility and faithfulness, without selfish gain, nor personal merit
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being the selfish, violent beasts we really are?” AI-Arnold asked
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Jack did not pray, however, because in his personal opinion and not necessarily anybody else’s, it was quite selfish to pray, to ask the powers that be that the rules of the universe be temporarily twisted in one’s own personal favor
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There are Men who are selfish, nasty, and unhygienic
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There are Women who are selfish, nasty and unhygienic
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berated herself for being so selfish
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And of course it is selfish
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While this was true, Nerissa had her selfish reasons, too
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The answer to this question is easy: everything you do is for your own selfish benefit
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For the sake of this chapter, consider yourself as perfectly selfish
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The latter species of expense, therefore, especially when directed towards frivolous objects, the little ornaments of dress and furniture, jewels, trinkets, gew-gaws, frequently indicates, not only a trifling, but a base and selfish disposition
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selfish with private gloom
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All of these are selfish qualities that come into play when you thirst for something that you do not have
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Hesitation is when you are afraid to lose losing is not an act of glory but thoughts of doubt are selfish
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It might be selfish, but her wish was for the close contact with the family, especially Zarko, to continue for as long as she still had the strength to continue
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You lie; his sins are being arrogant, greedy, selfish
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Swami Satchidananda says, “Any desire without any personal or selfish motive will never bind you
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Those that bind us and cause pain are selfish thoughts, but selfless thoughts leave us in peace
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What is a selfish thought? It can be a thought about something you want, with the expectation that having it will make you happy
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The happiness of others does not factor in to the selfish thought
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A wish to keep something you have, if losing it will make you unhappy, is also selfish
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That’s why sometimes I say that the selfless person is the most selfish one
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A selfish person, on the other hand, will always act selfishly, even while performing acts that appear to be charitable
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Like a mirror, however, if your mind is clouded with selfish concerns, desires, fears, and ignorance, then it does not reflect the Self clearly
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FOCUS ON THEMSELVES AND GENERALLY HAVE A SELFISH ATTITUDE TOWARDS
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A somewhat selfish boy was quite often the best type for seducing
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When analyzed, this is actually success at the ego’s level, where the fulfillment is based on selfish desires
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Should we behave in a selfless or selfish manner?
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In those of the former kind, liberality, frankness, and good fellowship, naturally make a part of their common character ; in the latter, narrowness, meanness, and a selfish disposition, averse to all social pleasure and enjoyment
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It induced a state of shocking retrieval of her past – memories she’d wished she had buried for good: those selfish, inconsiderate acts
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Another thing, in my selfish opinion, I have a great sense that we are developing a very special relationship
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It was my own selfish reaction that put one of your children in this position
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I must admit and I know it sounds selfish and not what’s expected but I couldn’t wait to get back off leave to the Battalion
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There is not, perhaps, any selfish pleasure so frivolous, of which the pursuit has not sometimes ruined even sensible men
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I saw he was dressed in uniform which surprised me the last thin I would have expected from him was to join up because he was a selfish little bastard to say the least
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But you did exactly that! Now I have to punish her for your selfish acts!
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It was his selfish decision
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Any completely so-called selfness action requires the selfish decision of the individual who pursues that action
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It was then that he had realised how selfish he had been, demanding consolation from her when she was clearly suffering too
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He had not intended to hurt it but, in his selfish haste, he had unwittingly ended its life
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“But it was for a selfish reason,” he said so quietly she almost didn’t catch it
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A selfish indulgence into self-pity, and he cursed himself for brooding over his own career
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If her motivations were that selfish, she did not want to admit it, even to herself
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A drug addict is the most selfish person alive
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That obedience will be willingly given to the acknowledged superiority of America, when the Cuban realises that the betterment of his Island, not the selfish wishes of politicians and the greed of financiers, is concerned therein
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All of whom fatherly requested that we "get the f away and let them f pass to shoot the f terrorists" but we were selfish and just stayed there
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infernally selfish fellow, I wouldn't hate holidays
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would have grown dim with tears could this fickle, selfish, yet
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Could she be that selfish, to choose based on the yearnings of her heart, no matter how strong they were? Could she risk the lives of a hundred good men and women, all to satisfy her own childish needs for affection?
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) Adopting conspicuously faulty and (otherwise) self-serving reasoning conveniently side-steps a very important fact; that we all exist in a less than perfect world subject to changing fortunes and other unexpected events that routinely challenge our mettle; and that Nature, however, has its own inestimable manner of compensating each of us with an innate capacity to endure hardships and rise above our present condition however unfavorable or improbable our prospects for a ―better‖ life may appear and that an individual‘s threshold for suffering and privation oftentimes vary in proportion to that individual‘s (mental) endurance and acquired habits in spite of that individual‘s accustomed environment and in any event, such (gratuitous) impressions are problematical at best and should not serve as a litmus test in determining who should or should not be permitted to live or given an equal opportunity to exercise free choice(s) pre-empted by selfish motives indifferent to such rights; motives whose arbitrary designs are (otherwise) impervious to the apparent limits or consequences of questionable solutions whose (hardened) indifference to Life must inevitably diminish the (inherent) value a society confers upon its citizens regardless of their station in life
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‖ In what manner, for example, can we be certain of mutual love? Are demonstrable expressions of love sufficient proofs in themselves? Are outward appearances genuine or do such expressions proceed from affected emotions or selfish motive(s)? Does an act of love anticipate a reciprocity of tender feelings or is (that) love for an individual, apart from ―loving‖ that individual, expressed less for its own sake rather than the sake of the beloved? At what juncture does Reason, justified by Faith, provide us with some measure of certainty that we may rely upon without imposing limits or placing conditions on that love?
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She infuriated me with her selfish and callous attitude
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while The Written Law of God is cast off! It is regarded as foreign, antiquated and obsolete, in the eyes of this so-For every man is led by the deceits of his flesh, lo he is married to the selfish desires of his own heart, and all the called modern generation of enlightened peoples
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She tried to state her case once too often and I exploded, yelling at her to stop being so selfish and had she not been irresponsible enough for a lifetime
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Pampered and spoiled beyond their parent‘s willingness to control or muster the required checks that separate rights from privileges (inevitably) gave rise to increasingly selfish attitudes common among a growing generation of young men and women accustomed to having their own way
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But that would have been selfish of me, I knew that
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It is not selfish but common-sense
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She should have told Karla months ago to end the relationship with this man - he was obviously a no good, selfish son-of-a-bitch
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He felt selfish and ugly
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Tarrying here in the middle of the mountains, daydreaming like a young selfish brat was not at all what any man would expect of him, the one so honored
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the consequences of our selfish actions? The good news is that God can help us
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It is not easy to act unselfishly in a world that is run according to selfish
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He was suddenly angry at her, for her selfish acceptance of her good fortune
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This relationship has implications for psychological and emotional health as well in that enjoyment and pleasure is often seen in some cultures as wrong, selfish or ‘sinful’
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It was supposed to help us to behave as expected, as a curb to our selfish nature
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“What is it with you and this selfish bit? Huh? You did not have to go a
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That is why I ask you, why you are so damn selfish? And you still have not
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We have no evidence either way, but the earliest theological thinking stressed that the principle of serving others was somehow superior to selfish individual acquisition
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She didn’t have more friends because that bastard Alexander was so selfish that he kept her down and broke her spirit
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So, how does this apply to the opposites as indicated in the title? Satisfying the near term desire that would be termed good by the individual seeking it can be seen as having a bad effect if repeated too often and can be discerned as selfish or even evil by others at whose expense the repetitions are allowed or insisted upon
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Selfish is the individual who cannot or will not voluntarily comply with the needs of the many
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Even more selfish is the individual who purposefully seeks personal gain at the expense and pain of those others who have trusted in his or her adherence
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The selfish, the bad, the evil has always been seen as the insistence on individual advantage at whatever cost, with all the endlessly argued variations in between
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I wish I could; I wish I could move, but I just stare at her and wonder how long I have been this disgustingly selfish
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But she must be; if she calls him selfish, she must be angry
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―You are the most selfish, ungrateful person I have ever had anything to do with, Adam
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Most of the leaders of this city risked their lives to protect it from Jeanine and died, and I will not jeopardize it now for the sake of sating your selfish curiosity
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I’m not suggesting that you are selfish or self-centered
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That may be selfish, but that’s how I feel
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We believe that, given the inevitability of further conflict in our city, it would be selfish of us to stay here while what remains of our faction is inside that fence
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You will act like a selfish, insecure kid that is trying to play a role that is not yours yet
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I was so incredibly needy, insecure, and selfish, using her and our love as a commodity, a commodity that I certainly valued immensely since it was an indispensable solution to fulfill my personal needs
