The mother's love is not given to us to spoil us with indulgence, but to soften our hearts, that we may in… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others… — Horace Copy Share Image
Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor. — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
The time at length arrives, when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity and the smile that plays upon the lips,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I always have scarves handy; they're my indulgence. I buy them at an L.A. shop called Lost & Found. I'll spray one… — Lena Headey Copy Share Image
An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of… — David Daiches Copy Share Image
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role.… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is not what I do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through me. God does not want… — Elizabeth Dole Copy Share Image
The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Sin is one thing but instinctive reaction or passion is another. These are our reactions: pride, anger, sexual indulgence, hate, greed, and… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
When we don't get any treats, we feel depleted, resentful, and angry, and we feel justified in self-indulgence. We start to crave… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“A writer should be able to open a window or two for others to see the world and themselves in a new… — Barista Uno Copy Share Image
What's the ultimate price I'll pay if I don't stop this indulgence now? By asking questions like this, they'll associate pain to… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I love Monet: his 'Water Lilies' would look great on my wall. But would I prefer to see money helping kids get… — Bonnie Langford Copy Share Image
I didn't plan on going to college, at least not a full-time schedule. I still have that plan. I may take some… — Erika Christensen Copy Share Image
One of my personal indulgences is getting a weekly massage - it helps to re-align my body. I usually feel so much… — Noureen DeWulf Copy Share Image
Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
God in tender indulgence to our different dispositions; has strewed the Bible with flowers, dignified it with wonders, and enriched it with… — James Hervey Copy Share Image
Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“The only excuse for self indulgence is to learn that the objects we crave are overrated and don't satisfy our hunger, which… — Henry Makow Copy Share Image
Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
I always treat myself to one meal on Sundays when I can have whatever I want. Usually it's pizza, which is my… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness. — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels… — Nate Lowman Copy Share Image
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The indulgence of one sin opens the door to further sins. The indulgence of one sin diverts the soul from the use… — John Owen Copy Share Image
I am not indulgent. I think constructing a scene elaborately - with art, costume, and visual drama - is not indulgence. Other… — Sanjay Leela Bhansali Copy Share Image
I am now pretty far advanced in life, and all my views are center'd in the Happiness and well-fare of my children;… — George Mason Copy Share Image
