Selfish Love Quotes

I got a dream that's worth more than my reality.

We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others.

To join two things together there must be nothing between them or there cannot be a perfect fusion. Now realize that this is how God wants our soul to be, without any selfish love of ourselves or of others in between, just as God loves us without anything in between.

If you don't like me, remember it's mind over matter. I don't mind, and you don't matter.

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever burning and never consumed, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being.

There are three kinds of love; unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind; The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings. In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also. It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

It is easy to love friends and sweethearts. This is selfish love. Higher love embraces enemies and all ugly, bad people. The highest love doesn't see goodness or badness at all. One should even love warmongers, bad food producers and priests.

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

Beloved, we are always in the wrong, Handling so clumsily our stupid lives, Suffering too little or too long, Too careful even in our selfish loves: The decorative manias we obey Die in grimaces round us every day, Yet through their tohu-bohu comes a voice Which utters an absurd command - Rejoice.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.