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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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.
I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
I'm not selfish at all.
There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.