Noun
Concern for one's self.
Source: Webster's dictionaryself concern
Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self. Arnold J. Toynbee
They would fail. We would always fail. We weren't built to do anything but fail. We had the wrong kind of motives and we couldn't change them. We had a built-in short-sightedness and an inherent selfishness and a self-concern that made it impossible to step out of the little human rut we traveled. Clifford D. Simak
Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy. Robert Thurman