The moment you put a stop to people taking advantage of you and disrespecting you, is when they define you as difficult, selfish or crazy. Manipulators hate boundaries.

Walk away from people who just care about themselves.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge selfishness by Love

Live for yourself -- there's no one else More worth living for Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more

Well, I know they've always told you/ Selfishness was wrong/ Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this song

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up

I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others. One of the booby traps of freedom—which is bordered on all sides by isolation—is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life’s banquet

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody