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relationship, as the main characteristic of lust is selfishness, and love is anything but that
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I have found that there are three things that distract me from that Sabbath rest of living in the presence of God: sin, selfishness, and fear
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from rejection, fear, selfishness, lust and many other things
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Its antonyms are selfishness, egocentrism and egotism
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I want you to see the peeling walls and the masses of trash all around and KNOW that unless you change your ways, you are as ugly as those streets! This place looks like this because of the indifference and selfishness of people, and that indifference and selfishness is exactly what's causing girls like Rosabell to take their own lives!" The tears now streamed down her face
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The honest acknowledgement of your selfishness is a mature experience
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For example, you may change that experience from unhappiness to happiness, or from selfishness to selflessness
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Your greed, selfishness and arrogance are the reason you are here
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in a history of selfishness and war
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Still, blowing off in a great hurry was a form of selfishness that always left her dissatisfied, no matter how tolerant she might try to be of the youth ramming it into her cunt
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Her life was a ride of selfishness and her lifestyle of male visitors had ultimately cost her, her life and yet it was I that had to live with the consequences
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And by his selfishness he also shall reap,
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What I have observed, however, is a procession of global wars, famine, pestilence and disease, a decline in civility and (polite) manners, greed and rabid materialism, a diminution of moral and spiritual values, corporate and political corruption, consumer gluttony, disinterested parents and teachers, dysfunctional households, racism, steroids, offensive rap-music, pedophilia, teenage pregnancies and abortion, social unrest, selfishness and indifference, self-centeredness and conceit, the flaunting of immodest and indecent behavior and the glorification of stupidity in general
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There is a cure for selfishness and the consequences of pride, envy, anger,
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The consequences of our selfishness do not
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Selfishness is the attempt to love only oneself
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You ignored all of the advice from those of us who tried to help you, now you have to wear the consequences of your selfishness
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In Abnegation no one has committed suicide in recent memory, but the faction’s stance on it is clear: Suicide, to them, is an act of selfishness
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Spiritual evolution, through many incarnations in the material world, changes the focus and the direction of the flow of energy, transforming selfishness to love, black holes into stars
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No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us
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You are so unwilling to relinquish your comfort that your selfishness drains you of humanity!”
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It is important to understand that the greed, jealousy, anger, pride, selfishness, and attachment, which cause us so much suffering, are actually misperceptions of reality, not inherent conditions of our mind
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Likewise, in others, greed, jealousy, and selfishness
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In his ignorance, man thinks he can successfully strive for his own interests, and this wrongly-directed energy of selfishness produces suffering
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The paths of its sins and selfishness
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Selfishness is rooted in the
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callous selfishness is at the root of it
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a life of selfishness that ends in nothingness and makes
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M: Selfishness is the cause of suffering
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And selfishness cannot be re-
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Stupidity and selfishness are the only evil
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And the ultimate in selfishness is to care only for the protection,
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When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all de-
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His selfishness is hidden away as he is very nice much of the time as he is setting up his victims
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What is better-our current life of selfishness that ends in nothingness
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Selfishness is overcome because we have a teamwork of mentors
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I can understand those who are motivated by greed or selfishness
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It made me sad at the unfairness of the situation and anger once more rose at my mother's selfishness
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Protesting Roger’s selfishness and ingratitude, she took her things and went to sleep in the living-room couch, in plain view of their very apprehensive, disturbed, worried and fearful children
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Her concern for Gabriel was real but at the core of the matter was something else, selfishness
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We all discuss and debate, presenting our points of view, then together, we arrive at a consensus—this because we all love each other and there is no selfishness here
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“Why all the wars, disease, old age, hunger, selfishness, evil, exploitation of man by man, and the rot and vermin that are satiated with this? Why so many children who cry desperately? Why, while some feast, are others consumed by hunger and suffer the cruelty of begging and stealing just to stay alive? Why the thieves, including the big thieves who hide behind big business and government? Why the killers, both those who kill for pleasure and those who kill in the name of corrupt laws? Why so many concentration camps, so many jails, asylums, and mental institutions? Why so many physically and mentally handicapped? Why so many animals that cruelly devour each other? Why so many weapons? What is the reason for so many so-called natural disasters that kill innocent people and destroy their T H E L O V E S P I R I T S
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going to have to suffer for the selfishness and self-abuse
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They act out of selfishness, and it serves no purpose of theirs to cause injustice in the world that has no direct benefit for themselves
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Maybe it was out of kindness or selfishness, but I decided to take Ann with me
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selfishness at the expense of others in need
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glory to you? Will it show a life of selfless love, or a life of selfishness? Will it
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He knew the ultimate selfishness of his motives for leaving, yet what choice had he?
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One is that the root of all sin is selfishness and envy (according to James 3:14)
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The code of ethics for a warrior is simply one of rational selfishness
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leads to - analysis reveals that selfishness is operating, but masked by a "caring" rhetoric
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“That shared, be wise and not deceived by what will seem what it is not: Love doth not hide behind half-truths nor levy pressure to persuade; it can’t be used to further greed nor foster acts of selfishness; Love takes no pride in pedigree nor threatens the environment; it neither motivates by fear nor rests where sleeps complacency, but manifests scenarios designed to challenge staid ideals
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Our selfishness and our unconcern for the survival of others, proved to be our salvation
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My selfishness ended the day I realized my own kin could and
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These egos are of our own creation, as throughout the course of time, we as a species have managed to throw all our hate, all our angst, our selfishness, our prejudice, our greed, our hunger, our lust for power, and most of all, our fears, into the pit of our collective consciousness
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There are many other forms of selfishness that can delay the pupil' s progress
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sympathizes with all; he has cast selfishness behind him for ever, and he lives
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be his constant endeavour to kill out every trace of pride, selfishness and
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The escape from the service of light and life can only result in those distressing conflicts with the difficult whales of selfishness which lead eventually to darkness and death unless such God-forsaking Jonahs shall turn their hearts, even when in the very depths of despair, to seek after God and his goodness
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Selfishness leads to grief; perpetual care kills
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Now, oftentimes, men and women become confused in their efforts to understand themselves and to grapple with the manifold difficulties of making a living in a world so largely dominated by selfishness and sin
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Jealousy usual y indicates one of two things: selfishness or
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Judas was suffering from a periodic attack of sensitiveness and selfishness
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You know that men are all too often led into temptation by the urge of their own selfishness and by the impulses of their animal natures
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Prejudice is inseparably linked to selfishness
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There is a great difference between wealth which leads to covetousness and selfishness and that which is held and dispensed in the spirit of stewardship by those who have an abundance of this world's goods, and who so bountifully contribute to the support of those who devote all their energies to the work of the kingdom
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4 "But herein is the danger to all who would postpone their entrance into the kingdom while they continue to pursue the pleasures of immaturity and indulge the satisfactions of selfishness: Having refused to enter the kingdom as a spiritual experience, they may subsequently seek entrance thereto when the glory of the better way becomes revealed in the age to come
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9 All this concept of atonement and sacrificial salvation is rooted and grounded in selfishness
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The material spirit of selfishness has been swallowed up in this new spiritual bestowal of selflessness
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To him prayer was a sincere expression of spiritual attitude, a declaration of soul loyalty, a recital of personal devotion, an expression of thanksgiving, an avoidance of emotional tension, a prevention of conflict, an exaltation of intellection, an ennoblement of desire, a vindication of moral decision, an enrichment of thought, an invigoration of higher inclinations, a consecration of impulse, a clarification of viewpoint, a declaration of faith, a transcendental surrender of will, a sublime assertion of confidence, a revelation of courage, the proclamation of discovery, a confession of supreme devotion, the validation of consecration, a technique for the adjustment of difficulties, and the mighty mobilization of the combined soul powers to withstand all human tendencies toward selfishness, evil, and sin
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Toward anger and selfishness and the need to eat
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The strife, war, unending greediness, selfishness, and irresponsibleness of mankind lingered in his thoughts
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So I came into AA with a drinking problem, but I didn’t know that I had a living problem as well: selfishness
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predilection toward greed and selfishness, is coping in a city
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He counters feelings of emptiness from this lack by not giving up anything he already possesses, justifying his selfishness through perceiving himself as more important than other people
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So a cycle of selfishness is sustained, hiding from himself through holding on to things and people and expecting others treat him more importantly, negating his empty feelings
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One speaker gave thanks for the selfishness of European colonialism that he believed would Christianize Africa
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I was at peace and amazed at the grace I had received, even though in my selfishness, I had been thinking “28inch halibut” while saying “food fish”
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Jesus Christ is observed then that selfishness turns into
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Selfishness and noncooperation in the European and the African
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Anyways, here’s what I think is important: Abandoning selfishness and doing good
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The flesh of man is rotten, inferior in its weakness, and has but greed and selfishness as its existence and will decipher meanings from the ‘old man’ in which it’s made of
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Probably sounds like a silly story, but this was the beginning of the realization of the imperfection and selfishness that had been embedded in my life
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That would have not bothered a common Succubus, who was the perfect image of selfishness, but she was no common Succubus
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Society was in such a rut of selfishness that two critical themes of the Enlightenment involved toleration and equality
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others, they can see the commonalities of all life, but selfishness has been compounded and furthered through the power of ignoble people spreading selfish ideas; some of which predate civilization
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individuals representing not each other or the common good, but only the interests of their respective countries, is naturally beset by severe bias and selfishness that hinders mutual assistance
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Individuality is not discouraged, on the contrary, but selfishness is
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Superstitious beliefs, hostility, selfishness, competition and secrecy have all combined to set civilization back by thousands of years, and hasten ecologic damage proportionately
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Selfishness doesn't pay; being a responsible citizen does
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Children are the most susceptible to catching the frustration, rudeness, selfishness, abusiveness, and hatred plaguing their homes and communities
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Selfishness prevents people from Doing unto others as they would have done to them
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Also, being atheists didn’t stop us from being humane, compassionate, generous and tolerant, while too many so-called good Christians of today show greed, selfishness, intolerance and cruelty
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For a while it seemed Hurd was learning, but then greed crept in, and Hurd chose selfishness over the good of the people
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Where All Normal Training Fails is that it does not deal with Man's Energy Blockage Propensity for Egotistical, Selfishness and
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Propensity for Egotistical Selfishness, Competitiveness and Evil in the Hearts of All Men
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This is going to sound extremely harsh but the fact is that feeling low is essentially the result of selfishness and laziness
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To become the occasional lover of Louis XIV did not bother her, at least for the first years of his reign, before the negative influence of his court and the constant fawning or his courtesans would develop in him his least attractive traits, like selfishness and arrogance