Albert Camus Quotes
The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.Albert Camus
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde -
All art is a confession.
Gaston Lachaise -
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
Madame de Stael -
Selfishness is blind.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
Alan Garner -
In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Confession basically means saying the same thing about your sin as God says. So if you say you want to develop integrity, but you're not willing to face the rough parts and confess them, you won't get there.
David Jeremiah -
The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.
J. G. Holland -
I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.
Abraham Lincoln -
Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.
Henry Ward Beecher -
True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.
Socrates -
I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it.
Albert Einstein
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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
William Hazlitt -
Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must not just appreciate it, it should also be precious to you, and if not, if this, too, goes past your souls, then it means you really do not respect me, gentlemen. I tell you that, and I will die of shame at having confessed to such men as you.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.
William Graham Sumner -
This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.
Erich Maria Remarque -
Fatherhood: How God blesses you out of your selfishness and floods your soul with love, all while reminding you how little you know.
Mark Hart Crowded House
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The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of spiritual need, the man to whom we have no tie but our common nature, seems nearer to us than mother, brother, or friend. Our daily familiar life is but a hiding of ourselves from each other behind a screen of trivial words and deeds, and those who sit with us at the same hearth, are often the farthest off from the deep human soul within us, full of unspoken evil and unacted good.
George Eliot -
I believe in a set of values I cannot live by.
Isabella Rossellini -
Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.
Barry Jenkins -
The eye sees more than the heart knows.
William Blake -
The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.
Albert Camus