I've tried everything but celibacy, and I really want to know what it feels like to be touched by someone with a… — LisaRaye McCoy-Misick Copy Share Image
“Relation with another man or a woman, other than one’s own husband or a wife, is a direct cause for a life… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“There are times, Kruppe murmurs, when celibacy born of sad deprivation becomes a boon, nay, a source of great relief.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“Not just the celibacy thing but because he has God’s ear, a line on the mysteries. That’s impressive to girls.” — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
“One is God himself, [but] for how long does that authority of God last? As long as he speaks the truth, practices… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
It would not have suprised Emilio Sandoz that his sex life was discussed with such candor and affectionate concern by his friends.… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“Professor Khupe rubbed his hand along the sand dunes of her windswept form. The static charge made her skin feel like the… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“There are three kinds of ‘alcohols’ [intoxications]. 1. (Intoxication due to) sexual desires. 2. Drinking alcohol, 3. The alcohol of egoistical intoxication;… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“There is sheel (the highest state of conduct in worldly interaction) when not a single living being is ever hurt even to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I think when you embrace celibacy other elements of the relationship have to come forth. There isn't an opportunity for you to… — Edwina Findley Copy Share Image
To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Hunger is a solution to alleviate suffering. All the vishayas (senses of pleasures) are a solution to alleviate suffering. But they have… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There were the physical challenges of hitchhiking across Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan as they were quite dangerous areas. I wrote about… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
“[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first to the sacred garments… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
“Nay! Can it be Braden’s made it a whole hour without a woman? Quick, Lochlan, send for a healer afore he collapses… — Kinley MacGregor Copy Share Image
“Celibacy,fasting, penance, mortification, self-denial, humility, silence, solitude and the whole train of monkish virtues...Stupify the understanding and harden the heart, obscure the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think. I… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
People sometimes focus on the red button hot topic issues and I'm, like, you know, who cares about priestly celibacy? I'm thinking… — Lino Rulli Copy Share Image
I left the convent and that was because I wasn't a very good nun. I could see that I wasn't going to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats. — Sean O Faolain Copy Share Image
I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“A love of celibacy and a zeal for martyrdom does not bode well for the future of the sect." - regarding the… — B.B. Warfield Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in this world that will bind you. Only where one enjoys the women other than his own wife, that… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“individual sexual drive varies greatly, that penetrative intercourse is not the only means of sexual satisfaction and that celibacy never killed anyone.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Self is nirvishayi (without any sense pleasure); penance-renouncing are vishayas (sense pleasure). No vishaya has the Self (Soul) in it; Self is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only… — Roger Lewis Copy Share Image
Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Fr. Benedict Groeschel says it in his uniquely northern New Jersey way: “Celibacy means that we belong exclusively to the Lord, from… — Timothy M Dolan Cardinal Copy Share Image
“If one abstains in just sex, he will end up being ‘God’. If one becomes immersed in sex, he will go straight… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Most people that commit to a life of celibacy weren't leaving that much on the table in the first place. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
“In the main, it counsels yielding to celibacy, which is exactly as sensible as advising a dog to forget its fleas.” — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“When one becomes ‘above normal’ or ‘below normal’ in circumstances; it is called a vishaya (involvement in worldly subjects and sense pleasures).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
![“One is God himself, [but] for how long does that authority of God last? As long as he speaks the truth, practices non-violence, does not steal, practices celibacy and remains non-acquisitive – till then power of God will remain.” quote by Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d86/dada-bhagwan-31_celibacy_one-is-god-himself-but-for-how-long-does_1141163.jpg)
![“There are three kinds of ‘alcohols’ [intoxications]. 1. (Intoxication due to) sexual desires. 2. Drinking alcohol, 3. The alcohol of egoistical intoxication; the one that claims ‘I am…I am…” quote by Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35c/dada-bhagwan-31_balance-in-life_there-are-three-kinds-of-alcohols-intoxi_1378775.jpg)
![“[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first to the sacred garments and monastic profession before thou gavest thyself to God. And for that in this one thing thou shouldst have had little trust in me I vehemently grieved and was ashamed. For I…” quote by Héloïse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60e/heloise-27050_abandonment_a-s-though-mindful-of-the-wife-of-lot-wh_2879511.png)
