Swami Vivekananda Selfish Quotations

The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world.

All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.

We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up to set right other people, and not ourselves. If we are miserable, we say, "Oh, the world is a devil's world." We curse others and say, "What infatuated fools!" But why should we be in such a world, if we really are so good? If this is a devil's world, we must be devils also; why else should we be here? "Oh, the people of the world are so selfish!" True enough; but why should we be found in that company, if we be better? Just think of that.

[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.

Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.