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  1. Gustave Flaubert _ Madame Bovary

    She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes.
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  2. Charlotte Brontë _ Villette

    I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.
    book-quotesufferingselfishvillette

  3. John Fowles _ The Collector

    What you love is your own love. It's not love, it's selfishness. It's not me you think of, but what you feel about me.
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  4. Ayn Rand _ The Fountainhead

    ...Aren't they all acting on a selfish motive-to be noticed, liked, admired?""-by others. At the price of their own self-respect. In the realm of greatest importance-the realm of values, of judgment, of spirit, of thought-they place others above self, in the exact manner which altruism demands. A truly selfish man cannot be affected by the approval of others. He doesn't need it.
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  5. William Nicholson _ Shadowlands

    Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.
    book-quoteloveselfishnessgod

  6. Randy Alcorn _ Money, Possessions and

    Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For some of us, this may mean ridding ourselves of most of our possessions. But for all of us it should mean dedicating everything we retain to further the kingdom. {For true disciples, however, it cannot mean hoarding or using kingdom assets self-indulgently.}
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  7. Randy Alcorn _ Money, Possessions and

    ...if I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture. ...Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem nonmaterialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well.
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  8. Randy Alcorn _ Money, Possessions and

    Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?
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