thoughts from the wise

To be saved is only this,--salvation from our own selfishness.
- john greenleaf whittier


Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.
-henry wheeler shaw


It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.
-christian scriver


To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends
-hugh reginald haweis


No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
-george macdonald


No man is more cheated that the selfish man.
-henry ward beecher


The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
-ralph waldo emerson