One has to differentiate between priorities and self-indulgence. What you have today may disappear tomorrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[H]e who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self indulgence from which he is sure to reap… — George S. Clason 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
“Some will call this self-indulgence (They are lucky not to know its truth) Some will know the simple fact of pain This… — Sarah Kane 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
Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence… — John Updike 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
Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the… — Aldous Huxley 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
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
“He [Eugène Rougon] believed exclusively in himself; where another saw reasons, Rougon possessed convictions; he subordinated everything to the incessant aggrandisement of… — Émile Zola 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
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that… — David Brin 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
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
We've become embarrassed about asking ourselves the straightforward, simple questions that are actually the most relevent: what is it to be human?… — Bettany Hughes 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
“Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.” — Louis Faurer 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
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
“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
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
Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large… — Hal Rothman 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
“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
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
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
Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Denial is the worst form of self-indulgence. A warrior sees his faults as being his passage to power.” — Théun Mares Copy Share Image
“Perfect by nature, icons of self indulgence. Just what we need more lies about our world.” — Evanescence Copy Share Image
All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot. I saw my life as a whole.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
Theatre is castigated for wallowing in self-indulgence, but it's curiously unsentimental. You simply have to move on. Everything passes. Something in me… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
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