Alan Lightman Quotes, Selfish Quotes, Rain Quotes

Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return. All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return? He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?

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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

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Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

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All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

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It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

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All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

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Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.

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The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.

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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

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I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

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People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

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It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

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The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.

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He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.

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I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways.

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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

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Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.

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It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.

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Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

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...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.

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