One has to differentiate between priorities and self-indulgence. What you have today may disappear tomorrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts. — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence . — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. — Audre Lorde 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
The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires… — Laura Marling 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 learn economy. It strips away self-indulgence. Just in the act itself it requires a certain amount of humility. You have… — Charlie Huston 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
“She couldn't save them, she couldn't save anyone but herself, which made her presence here the worst sort of self-indulgence, her mission… — Ben Fountain 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference… — Walter Lippmann 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
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
“Novelty and Security: the security of novelty, the novelty of security. Always the full thing, the whole subject, the true subject, stood… — John Crowley 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
“They're trying to breed a nation of techno-peasants. Educated just enough to keep things going, but not enough to ask tough questions.… — Michael Flynn 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
Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence. — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
We should always be realistic about our needs, steer clear of this over indulgence & self imposed poverty nonsense. — Anonymous 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 his own ego. Despite being utterly devoid of real self-indulgence, he nevertheless indulged in secret orgies of supreme power.” quote by Émile Zola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb4/mile-zola-1188_ego_he-eug-ne-rougon-believed-exclusively-in_836196.jpg)
