Martha MacCallum Quotes

Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.

To some people the ego is evil. It gives you so much. It gives you everything you want. But it takes back too much in return. It gives you everything: money, riches, women, glamour, everything you want. But in return it takes back so much, and you're soulless. That's its goal. The ego's goal is to leave you soulless.

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.

If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

I think players maybe now want to look more pretty than anything else. What I feel disappointed about when I watch games is too many players think of themselves. Still good players, maybe better than we were, but looking too much at themselves.

Selfishness is the only real atheism.

We're into an age of excessive individuals, all right. We're into the age were independence, autonomy, convenience, sometimes selfishness. The new trinity of me, myself and I, seems to dominate. We know that's contrary to the very nature of the human person. The very nature of the human person needs God and needs other people.

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

In the end, self-indulgence is very much about your ego and your vanity and your own id. The more you can indulge in it, the more pleasurable it becomes. And then when it feeds out, it's able to penetrate the mind and create a reaction.

You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.

Secularism breeds narcissism. There is nothing higher to live for, so you live for you

Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

People get really caught up in their own trips.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

A lot of comedians are selfish.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.

Every man makes a god of his own desire.

Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.