What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage. — Gregory Peck 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
Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence. — Donald A. Norman 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
“[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
Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“It may be lazy to sit on the couch all day. But if you are reading a book while sitting on the… — Kristin Hansen Copy Share Image
I realize that nobody listens anymore, too much self indulgence that only leaves room for simple mistakes and major misunderstandings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“A writer should be able to open a window or two and prompt others to see the world and themselves in a… — Barista Uno Copy Share Image
“Penitence is nothing but a form of self-indulgence. Some things you cannot wash from your hands, and there’s no use in trying.”… — Greg Keyes 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
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
“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
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
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
Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
When you're walking in, basically like a kid a candy store, to a project where there's an endless canon of material, you… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant. — Fulton J. Sheen 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
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
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close knit communities, and our faith in God , too many… — Jimmy Carter 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
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
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
In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths. — Dean Koontz 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
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
“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
“ He shrank from even the smallest things that inclined towards self indulgence. He would not remain alone with a lady. {… — Moncure Daniel Conway Copy Share Image
“So many of us resist the truth that self-care is not self-indulgence, but it is a fact that you cannot pour from… — Lily Burana 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
“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
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