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selfish sacrifice benefits
Richard Dawkins What you cannot have is a gene that sacrifices itself for the benefit of other genes. What you can have is a gene that makes organisms sacrifice themselves for other organisms under the influence of selfish genes.
selfish generosity design
Richard Dawkins Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
selfishness disguise inspection
Richard Dawkins It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
selfish evil design
Richard Dawkins If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such a universe would be neither evil nor good in intention ... The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
selfish earth rebel
Richard Dawkins We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
selfish eye sight
Richard Dawkins Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.
selfishness care mental-health
Roz Chast It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it.
selfish compassion people
Rose Macaulay How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently.
love-is convenient painless
Richard Paul Evans Love is never convenient-and rarely painless
love-is husband-and-wife fever
Richard J. Needham Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.
love-is unconditional gods-love
Saint Augustine God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!
love-is law significance
Reinhold Niebuhr The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.
love-is romantic-love mind
Virginia Woolf Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.
love-is avoided
William Wycherley Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.
love-is world-love soul
Rudolf Steiner Our egoism gains nothing from acts of love, but the world gains all the more. Esotericism tells us that love is to the world what the Sun is for outer life. No soul could thrive if love departed from the world. Love is the “moral” Sun of the world.
love-is important fruit
Rudolf Steiner For human beings, love is the most important fruit of experience in the sense world.
love-is magic
Wayne Coyne Love is not a magic gravity that keeps everything up.
self-love understanding would-be
Ovid If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.
self-love messages body
Louise Hay I listen with love to my body's messages.
self-love our-love source
Susan Jeffers The source of our love comes from within. No one out there is that source. It makes sense to go to the source.
self-love wish immortality
Mortimer Adler Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
self-love looks tough
Alexandra Fuller I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.
self-love be-good dominant
Esther Hicks It is my dominant intent to be good to me.
self-love selfishness wish
Jean de la Bruyere We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.
self-love done matter
Iyanla Vanzant Know thyself. Accept thyself. Love thyself. No matter what you have done, where you have been, know, accept, and love who you are.