Selfishness


The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
If You Plant a Seed
The Giving Tree
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Bully
The Smallest Gift of Christmas
Ugly Fish
Limelight Larry
Fairest (The Lunar Chronicles, #3.5)
Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
The Rainbow Fish
Me First
The Day the Books Disappeared
A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensMacbeth by William ShakespeareCharlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald DahlAnimal Farm by George OrwellBartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss
The Deadly Sin of Greed
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Erich Fromm
The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one's reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if one has emerged from the dreams of omniscience and omnipotence which one has as a child. Love, being dependent on the relative absence of narcissism, requires the developement of humility, objectivity and reason. I must try to see the difference between my picture of a person and his behavior ...more
Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then you will be read to fight the enemy you can see.
Al-Ghazzali

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