Beware Of Selfish People Quotes

Beware: At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease.

Beware of those who are too focused with polishing and beautifying their outer shells. They lack true substance to understand that genuine beauty is reflected from the heart that resides inside.

Since this often seems to come up in discussions of the radical style, I'll mention one other gleaning from my voyages. Beware of Identity politics. I'll rephrase that: have nothing to do with identity politics. I remember very well the first time I heard the saying "The Personal Is Political." It began as a sort of reaction to defeats and downturns that followed 1968: a consolation prize, as you might say, for people who had missed that year. I knew in my bones that a truly Bad Idea had entered the discourse. Nor was I wrong. People began to stand up at meetings and orate about how they 'felt', not about what or how they thought, and about who they were rather than what (if anything) they had done or stood for. It became the replication in even less interesting form of the narcissism of the small difference, because each identity group begat its sub-groups and "specificities." This tendency has often been satirised—the overweight caucus of the Cherokee transgender disabled lesbian faction demands a hearing on its needs—but never satirised enough. You have to have seen it really happen. From a way of being radical it very swiftly became a way of being reactionary; the Clarence Thomas hearings demonstrated this to all but the most dense and boring and selfish, but then, it was the dense and boring and selfish who had always seen identity politics as their big chance. Anyway, what you swiftly realise if you peek over the wall of your own immediate neighbourhood or environment, and travel beyond it, is, first, that we have a huge surplus of people who wouldn't change anything about the way they were born, or the group they were born into, but second that "humanity" (and the idea of change) is best represented by those who have the wit not to think, or should I say feel, in this way.

Wolves in sheep's clothing, they masquerade as brothers and sisters in Christ, but their hearts are far from Him. With smiles and scriptures, they deceive and manipulate, using God's name to justify their own selfish desires. Beware, dear believer, for not everyone who wears the label of Christian is true to the faith. Let discernment be your guide, and the Holy Spirit your protector, lest you fall prey to the schemes of those who would use God's grace for their own gain.

While it’s wonderful to have an unwavering support system, we’re only human, and not everyone in your life is going to “get” all of your choices. The important thing is that they stand by you instead of trying to dissuade you from pursuing your passion. Just don’t let even their unspoken doubts convince you to abandon what you really want. At the end of the day they just want you to be happy and so should you. On the other hand, beware of the people in your life who voice their disapproval or seem to rain on every parade. Just like you are with your time and energy, you get to be selfish with who you surround yourself with because it is that crucial to your journey. The people in your inner circle influence you more than almost anything or anyone else, and so you must be conscious of whom you let in that precious space. You become what you tolerate, and most people in this world will respect you to the extent that you respect yourself and no more. It’s your job to teach people how to treat you.