“Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one. — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages. — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
“... a society devoted to self-destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
It is plain to me that our prelates in granting indulgences do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God. — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an… — Edmund Burke 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
L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
We live, in North America in general, if I'm given the indulgence of selling us down the river, in a culture of… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“Consumerism has worked very hard, with the help of popular psychology (‘Just do it!’) to convince people that indulgence is good for… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
“An indulgence is a remission of the temporal punishments which a penitent, whose sins are forgiven, has yet to undergo, either here… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
Both in individuals and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of whimsicality in the form, not a lot of indulgence allowed. Like when I was younger, I would… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the… — Ossian Everett Mills Copy Share Image
It does seem like if you're an interesting person and you have endless amounts of money to indulge your fantasies, then those… — Lawrence Douglas Copy Share Image
By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The Buddha's message was simple but profound. Neither a life of self-indulgence nor one of self-mortification can bring happiness. Only a middle… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights,… — Richard Mentor Johnson Copy Share Image
Many people, young and old, male and female, whites and blacks think only about being rich, comfortable and to spend luxuriously. Well,… — Samule Kermis Copy Share Image
“I have the better right to indulgence herein, because my devotion to letters strengthens my oratorical powers, and these, such as they… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
From the 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
There is a middle path between indulgence and suppression, but the culture has overwhelmed that in the cacophony that has been created… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Indulgence is a legitimate life goal, but it is only one of four life goals. No life is completely lived unless each… — Dr. Robert Svoboda Copy Share Image
Certainly the most obvious . . . example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
