"It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure."

-- Mortimer Adler

#Selfish Quotes #Giving Quotes #Lust Quotes

“We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.71, Vanderbilt University Press
“I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.”

Source : "Giancarlo Esposito talks ‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘Revolution’ and Emmys". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. July 31, 2012.
“It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.”
“I've been offered quite a few network shows, over the past couple of years, and always turned them down because I never wanted the commitment. The way that it works in America, you do a pilot and then you wait, and I just thought that wasn't really what I was interested in doing, in that moment.”
“Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.”

Source : Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.18, Basic Books
“music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.”
“One dies only if he's not anymore in the hearts and minds of those who know him. - Monkey D. Luffy”
“Surround yourself with positive people and situations, and avoid negativity.”

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