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    selfishness


    1. relationship, as the main characteristic of lust is selfishness, and love is anything but that


    2. I have found that there are three things that distract me from that Sabbath rest of living in the presence of God: sin, selfishness, and fear


    3. from rejection, fear, selfishness, lust and many other things


    4. Its antonyms are selfishness, egocentrism and egotism


    5. I want you to see the peeling walls and the masses of trash all around and KNOW that unless you change your ways, you are as ugly as those streets! This place looks like this because of the indifference and selfishness of people, and that indifference and selfishness is exactly what's causing girls like Rosabell to take their own lives!" The tears now streamed down her face


    6. The honest acknowledgement of your selfishness is a mature experience


    7. For example, you may change that experience from unhappiness to happiness, or from selfishness to selflessness


    8. Your greed, selfishness and arrogance are the reason you are here


    9. in a history of selfishness and war


    10. Still, blowing off in a great hurry was a form of selfishness that always left her dissatisfied, no matter how tolerant she might try to be of the youth ramming it into her cunt

    11. Her life was a ride of selfishness and her lifestyle of male visitors had ultimately cost her, her life and yet it was I that had to live with the consequences


    12. And by his selfishness he also shall reap,


    13. What I have observed, however, is a procession of global wars, famine, pestilence and disease, a decline in civility and (polite) manners, greed and rabid materialism, a diminution of moral and spiritual values, corporate and political corruption, consumer gluttony, disinterested parents and teachers, dysfunctional households, racism, steroids, offensive rap-music, pedophilia, teenage pregnancies and abortion, social unrest, selfishness and indifference, self-centeredness and conceit, the flaunting of immodest and indecent behavior and the glorification of stupidity in general


    14. There is a cure for selfishness and the consequences of pride, envy, anger,


    15. The consequences of our selfishness do not


    16. Selfishness is the attempt to love only oneself


    17. You ignored all of the advice from those of us who tried to help you, now you have to wear the consequences of your selfishness


    18. In Abnegation no one has committed suicide in recent memory, but the faction’s stance on it is clear: Suicide, to them, is an act of selfishness


    19. Spiritual evolution, through many incarnations in the material world, changes the focus and the direction of the flow of energy, transforming selfishness to love, black holes into stars


    20. No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us

    21. You are so unwilling to relinquish your comfort that your selfishness drains you of humanity!”


    22. It is important to understand that the greed, jealousy, anger, pride, selfishness, and attachment, which cause us so much suffering, are actually misperceptions of reality, not inherent conditions of our mind


    23. Likewise, in others, greed, jealousy, and selfishness


    24. In his ignorance, man thinks he can successfully strive for his own interests, and this wrongly-directed energy of selfishness produces suffering


    25. The paths of its sins and selfishness


    26. Selfishness is rooted in the


    27. callous selfishness is at the root of it


    28. a life of selfishness that ends in nothingness and makes


    29. M: Selfishness is the cause of suffering


    30. And selfishness cannot be re-

    31. Stupidity and selfishness are the only evil


    32. And the ultimate in selfishness is to care only for the protection,


    33. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all de-


    34. His selfishness is hidden away as he is very nice much of the time as he is setting up his victims


    35. What is better-our current life of selfishness that ends in nothingness


    36. Selfishness is overcome because we have a teamwork of mentors


    37. I can understand those who are motivated by greed or selfishness


    38. It made me sad at the unfairness of the situation and anger once more rose at my mother's selfishness


    39. Protesting Roger’s selfishness and ingratitude, she took her things and went to sleep in the living-room couch, in plain view of their very apprehensive, disturbed, worried and fearful children


    40. Her concern for Gabriel was real but at the core of the matter was something else, selfishness

    41. We all discuss and debate, presenting our points of view, then together, we arrive at a consensus—this because we all love each other and there is no selfishness here


    42. “Why all the wars, disease, old age, hunger, selfishness, evil, exploitation of man by man, and the rot and vermin that are satiated with this? Why so many children who cry desperately? Why, while some feast, are others consumed by hunger and suffer the cruelty of begging and stealing just to stay alive? Why the thieves, including the big thieves who hide behind big business and government? Why the killers, both those who kill for pleasure and those who kill in the name of corrupt laws? Why so many concentration camps, so many jails, asylums, and mental institutions? Why so many physically and mentally handicapped? Why so many animals that cruelly devour each other? Why so many weapons? What is the reason for so many so-called natural disasters that kill innocent people and destroy their T H E L O V E S P I R I T S


    43. going to have to suffer for the selfishness and self-abuse


    44. They act out of selfishness, and it serves no purpose of theirs to cause injustice in the world that has no direct benefit for themselves


    45. Maybe it was out of kindness or selfishness, but I decided to take Ann with me


    46. selfishness at the expense of others in need


    47. glory to you? Will it show a life of selfless love, or a life of selfishness? Will it


    48. He knew the ultimate selfishness of his motives for leaving, yet what choice had he?


    49. One is that the root of all sin is selfishness and envy (according to James 3:14)


    50. The code of ethics for a warrior is simply one of rational selfishness













































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    Synonyms for "selfishness"

    selfishness egotism stinginess greed self-regard

    "selfishness" definitions

    stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others