"It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live."

-- Jules Renard

#Selfish Quotes #Being Selfish Quotes #Filled Quotes

“Come warm weather, I'm going to take a kid fishing; I hope you do to. But nothing would make me happier than to look across the cove or down the stream and see a young one help an old one remember what it is like to be young in Springtime.”

Source : Gene Hill (1985). “A Listening Walk --and Other Stories”, p.109, Academic Learning Company LLC
“I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.”
“It's not what you spend but how you wear it that counts. The key is often to dress up inexpensive basics with accessories. Something like a beautiful designer bag or belt can make everything else look richer and more luxurious.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration...”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You're so beautiful," said Alice. "I'm afraid of looking at you and not knowing who you are." "I think that even if you don't know who I am someday, you'll still know that I love you." "What if I see you, and I don't know that you're my daughter, and I don't know that you love me?" "Then, I'll tell you that I do, and you'll believe me.”

Source : Lisa Genova (2011). “Lisa Genova Box Set: Still Alice and Left Neglected”, p.272, Simon and Schuster
“It was the last time sheâ€™d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadnâ€™t held it tighter when you had it every day.”
“Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings, and at the end can lie only negation and despair. Religion is therefore the foundation of ethics, and ethics the presupposition of life.”

Source : Werner Heisenberg (1990). “Across the frontiers”, Ox Bow Pr
“I am completely pissed off that I'm circumcised.”

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