Thomas Merton Quotes

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

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

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

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

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

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

We all get self-centered.

His fundamental interest throughout his life was himself.

The only one that matters is me. I am the only one that matters.

The funny thing about the people I don't like - they're very self-centered.

It's all about me, no matter who I'm fighting.

I am a greedy, selfish actor, and for me, my role is important.

Selfishness is a quality and not necessarily a bad thing.

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

Selfishness is the only real atheism.

Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

A lot of comedians are selfish.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

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

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.