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selfishness
«If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.»
Author: Cesare Pavese
(Critic, Novelist, Poet, Translator)
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
envies, fast, fears, jealousies, selfishness, take off
«A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his selfishness and errors.»
«Give up your selfishness, and you shall find peace; like water mingling with water, you shall merge in absorption.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
absorption, find, give, give up, make water, merge, merging, mingles, mingling, peace, selfishness, shall, take water, water
«Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.»
Author: William Arthur Ward
| Keywords:
bitterness, breaks, chains, door, forgiveness, handcuffs, hate, key, resentment, selfishness, shackle, shackled, shackles, unlock, unlocked, unlocking, unlocks, with bitterness
«As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| Keywords:
clears, cloud, complaint, pervert, perverting, perverts, selfishness, sharpened, sharpening, sharpens, The Vision, vision
«Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Creativity,
Decision,
Generosity
| Keywords:
altruism, creative, decide, destructive, selfishness, the darkness, The Light, walk in
«All the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable, grew, blossomed and bore fruit in this one word, Hell»
«I am egotistical and conceited, and my intellect is ignorant. Meeting the Guru, my selfishness and conceit have been abolished. The illness of egotism is gone, and I have found peace.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
abolished, conceit, conceited, egotism, egotistical, guru, gurus, illness, selfishness, The Guru, The Illness