Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

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About Nathaniel Hawthorne

Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne (né Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion.

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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life is made up of marble and mud.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

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I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time. I believe very few people want to hurt others. I believe that you can be surprised by life. I believe in happy endings.

—Isabel Gillies in Happens Every Day

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I'm being very selfish with myself right now. Taking care of me, feeding my own soul.

—Debbie Macomber in A Girl's Guide to Moving On

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

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.

—Gretchen Rubin in The Happiness Project

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Self-love, self-respect, self-approval, and self-worth do not equal self-ish.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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