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Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. - Nathani

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Happiness
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Butterflies
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Selfishness
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Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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It’s Not All About You…Stay in the Game. Taking myself lightly means trading my self-absorption for connecting with others…it is really not all about you! One of our workshop participants relates to this principle in this way: Don’t make yourself more important than the situation. – Suzanne Mayo Frindt

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Selfishness

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. – Doug Horton

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

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