Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having… — Lulu Copy Share Image
After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to… — Upton Sinclair 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
Writing is an art but also a craft, which means it's a job. I don't teach. This is how the groceries get… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa. — Iain Banks 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
Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence , an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“do not fall in love with your suffering, never presume that your suffering is in itself a proof of your authenticity. Renunciation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-indulgence stays in safe harbor. Obedience always leaves self behind and sails out in faith....Waves present opportunity! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“What is a scumbag? In simple words, the item in question is an inexpensive device that facilitates individual pleasure and self indulgence… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
The concept of emotional or spiritual survival has an honorable history, but it does invite self-indulgence. In my own case, the worst… — Ellen Willis 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
In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence . — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
An authentic response to who God is and what He's done...What we do is useful to the extent that it provides an… — Crowder Copy Share Image
Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
