Thoroughly selfish individuals can be entirely happy. They will be unlikely to find life very meaningful.

To such individuals, meaning often seems accidental, coincidental, or tangential … The reason this is so is that selfish people will find life meaningful only when they are not themselves; when they forget their selfish desires and act in a manner more consistent with agape (selfless love).

Meaning seems accidental, coincidental or tangential to their lives because, by and large, selflessness is accidental, coincidental and tangential to their lives.

There is nothing unpredictable about meaning, only the presence of selflessness in the life of a selfish person.


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The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to ex...
JAMES A. BALDWIN
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the inde...
JAMES A. BALDWIN
Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.
JAMES A. GARFIELD
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
JAMES A. GARFIELD
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze...
JAMES A. BALDWIN
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
JAMES A. GARFIELD
Instead of showing visibly distinct alternate identities, the typical DID patient presents a polysym...
JAMES A. CHU
When I first pitched my Navy tent on the island of Espiritu Santo to the north of Vila, the natives ...
JAMES A. MICHENER
I have to say, Alejandro Colucci is amazing. I had seen his work several times before I started maki...
JAMES A. MOORE
It's not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It's that most people do what they enj...
JAMES A. MURPHY
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country th...
JAMES A. MICHENER
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
JAMES A. BALDWIN
When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge...
JAMES A. FORBES
Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the s...
JAMES A. FORBES
White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.
JAMES A. FORBES
The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybod...
JAMES A. BALDWIN
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
JAMES A. BALDWIN
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small dif...
JAMES A. GARFIELD
Yes, the life of an adult entails accepting and in some way being responsible for pain.
JAMES A. AUTRY
They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.
JAMES A. MICHENER
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything an...
JAMES A. BALDWIN
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better...
JAMES A. MICHENER
If you walk 100 miles into the life you don't want. Often, you must walk those same 100 miles to get...
JAMES A. MURPHY
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complain...
JAMES A. MICHENER
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of...
JAMES A. MICHENER
If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart; the spirit should...
JAMES A. GARFIELD
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit sh...
JAMES A. GARFIELD
[Thomas] Carlyle believed that every man has a special duty to do in this world. If he had been aske...
JAMES A. FROUDE
Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
JAMES A. FROUDE
Where would we be without salt?
JAMES A. BEARD
There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own e...
JAMES A. BALDWIN
Given the historical power differential between blacks and whites, blacks are required to be attenti...
JAMES A. FORBES
Lloyd Alexander's tales were written and published when I was in diapers. Decades later, they re...
JAMES A. MOORE
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to cont...
JAMES A. BALDWIN
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
JAMES A. BALDWIN
It's Elvish," Tummeler repeated. "It says, basically, 'Declare allegiance, and be welcomed."
"W...
JAMES A. OWEN
Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, it...
JAMES A. GARFIELD
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronolo...
JAMES A. GARFIELD
Right reason is stronger than force.
JAMES A. GARFIELD
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor ju...
JAMES A. GARFIELD
If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a bra...
JAMES A. GARFIELD
Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best ...
JAMES A. FROUDE
Moving a magazine is like ordering 100,000 gallons of alphabet soup, to go. Last week, in Manhattan,...
JAMES A. LINEN
In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and ...
JAMES A. FORBES
Hawaii and Fiji are two of the best island groups in the world to visit as a vacationer. The great h...
JAMES A. MICHENER
I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
JAMES A. BALDWIN
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
JAMES A. MICHENER
Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
JAMES A. GARFIELD
By assuming control of Platinum before the expiration of the required waiting period while the Justi...
CHARLES A. JAMES
And no invader has ever conquered the heart of Poland, that spirit which is the inheritance of sons ...
JAMES A. MICHENER
This conduct prematurely reduced competition between the companies. Merging parties must strictly ad...
CHARLES A. JAMES
The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and ...
JAMES A. FORBES
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
JAMES A. BALDWIN
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's ...
JAMES A. BALDWIN
The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limi...
JAMES A. MICHENER
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life com...
JAMES A. MICHENER
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
JAMES A. MICHENER
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
JAMES A. MICHENER
Long before I fell in love with writing, I fell in love with reading. Sometimes, honestly, I feel li...
JAMES A. MOORE
If I were a young man today, I might be lured into the moviemaking industry. You can really make a s...
JAMES A. MICHENER
a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible chang...
JAMES A. MICHENER
Painful experiences are like scars in our minds. Some have healed and been forgotten. Others are the...
JAMES A. MURPHY