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I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

We all get self-centered.

There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.

Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.