“It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.”— Saul Bellow, newyorker.com
“We don’t love each other; we love the idea we have of each other. Very few humans understand this or can bear to contemplate it. They have blind faith in their own powers of creation. All love, ultimately, is self-love.”— Robert Galbraith, amazon.com
“But I do know we're deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“I’m looking for selfishness. Perfect selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake. And you stop everything you’re doing and run out and buy it for me. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me. And I say I don’t wa…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I’ve discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to ment…”— Daniel Keyes, amazon.com
“I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want anyone to know.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“I don’t know if it’s ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there’s a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.”— Jessica Capshaw, tvline.com
“Everyone is just walking along concerned with his own problems, his own life, his own worries. And we’re all expecting other people to tune into our own agenda. ‘Look at my worry. Worry with me. Step into my life. Care about my problems. Care about me.”— Sharon Creech, amazon.com
“And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.”— Stephen Colbert, esquire.com
“I don’t know if it’s ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there’s a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.”— Jessica Capshaw, tvline.com
“I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I think that whatever I do is my business. I do it because if I don’t I’m finished. I’m selfish: I do it for myself to save what is left of myself.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship: an ongoing romance.”— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com
“Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about ‘me.”— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com
“We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will?”— Sarah Addison Allen, amazon.com