{"quotes":[{"text":"There is nothing spiritual about a marriage that uses guilt, blame, shame or religious manipulations to keep a relationship together.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["blame","divorce","fear","guilt-trips","lack-of-courage","lied-to","loss-of-respect","loveless","manipulated","manipulations","marriage-problems","relationship-problems","self-serving","used"],"id":34020,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["greed","greedy","hoard","hoarding","invest","investment","self","self-centered","self-serving","selfish","selfishness","short","shortest","stock-stockpile"],"id":89577,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The ego is what drives a self-serving individual who hates to admit they are wrong.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["arrogant","backward","biased","close-minded","close-mindedness","closeminded","ego","egoism","egotism","heart","incorrect","mind","mindset","negative","person","right","self-centered","self-serving","selfish","wrong","wrongful"],"id":171846,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"If I’m asking what kind of ‘return’ I should be expecting on the sacrifices I’m making, I have in that question revealed the need to ‘return’ that question to wherever I found it and have the word ‘return’ edited out of it.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["dividend","edit","editing","egocentric","giving","greed","misconstrue","misunderstand","misunderstood","narcissism","narcissistic","question","return","sacrifice","sacrifices","sacrificial","sacrificing","self-serving","selfish","selfishness","selfless","wisdom","word","wording"],"id":215691,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to see through the bullshit - because then people will be too smart to vote for them again.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["bullshit","educate","government","interests","masses","self-serving","smart","smart-enough","vote"],"id":286934,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you’ll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["burden","burdened","ego","egocentric","egotistical","fatigued","feed","feeding","gorging","heaviest","heavy","narcissism","narcissistic","obese","self-serving","selfish","selfishness","tired","weight","weighty"],"id":339223,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Prayer is not about asking what you want, but what God wants.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["prayer","praying","self-serving","serving-god"],"id":343926,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn’t open to anywhere good.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["cause","cliff","dangerous","door","egocentric","entitlement","fool","foolish","fourth-of-july","greed","greedy","independence","liberation","memorial-day","patriot","patriotism","self-serving","selfish","selfishness","united-states","united-states-of-america"],"id":350688,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can’t hear it.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["agendas","bias","biases","conscience","cotton","deaf","ears","ethics","fortitude","hear","hearing","humble","humility","integrity","morals","self","self-serving","selfish","selfless","selflessness","truth","values"],"id":363291,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"I prefer to rely on my memory. I have lived with that memory a long time, I am used to it, and if I have rearranged or distorted anything, surely that was done for my own benefit.","author":"Leon Festinger","tags":["bias","memory","self-serving"],"id":364431,"author_id":"Leon+Festinger"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}