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- Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting… — Neal A. Maxwell
- The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- I fall into that nebulous, quote-unquote, normal American woman size that legions of fashion stylists detest. For the record, I'm a size… — Mindy Kaling
- The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity. — Jacques Barzun
- In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment. — Gautama Buddha
- In general, it can be said that no contemplative life is possible without ascetic self-discipline. One must learn to survive without the… — Thomas Merton
- The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for… — Alma Gluck
- Debauchery conceived of as a kind of ascetic experience is not new, either for men or for women, but until Story of… — Anne Desclos
- Ascetic spirituality is a symptom of the very disease which it intends to cure. — Anodea Judith
- The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present… — Henry Ward Beecher
- During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey. — Alexander Alekhine