Walt Whitman Quotes

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.

The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

I don't live for anyone other than myself, and I don't have a problem showing people or telling them.

When we find comfort in knowing that all the love and support we need is housed inside us, we can honestly share that joy with others without needing anything in return.

Wheresoever we seek our own, there we fall from love.

The more independent you want to be, the more generous you must be with yourself as a woman.

Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

I don't encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!

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.

I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.

I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.

I don't need a man in my life.

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

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

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

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

I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.

My co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.' I reply, 'I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.'

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

All I have to do is what's right for me.

I'm not someone who feels the pressure of someone else's expectations. That's a very young way to feel.