SELFISHNESS
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live;
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
Become more than yourself.
- Sri Aurobindo
If one loves someone because it gives pleasure, one should not be regarded as loving that person at all. The love is, in reality, directed towards the pleasure. The source of the pleasure is the secondary object of attention, and it is perceived only because the perception of the pleasure is not well enough developed for the real feeling to be identified and described.
- Al-Ghazali, from Al-Ghazali's Path to Sufism: His Deliverance from Error and Five Key Texts
The question is not, "If I stop to help the sanitation workers,
what will happen to me?" The question is, "If I do not stop to
help the sanitation workers, what will happen to them?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.