Extravagance Quote by Laozi Download Open image “The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.” — Laozi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Extravagance Extremes Identity Indulgence Inspirational Persons Self Self indulgence True person
Persons who insist to themselves that under one set of conditions only can they lead interesting and satisfying lives lay themselves open to bitter… — Hortense Odlum Copy Share Image
An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to… — Johann Kaspar Lavater 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
Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The true personality of an individual becomes manifest in how he/she deals with challenging situations. — Ahmed Copy Share Image
“A person functioning exclusively in the Cartesian mode may be free from manifest symptoms but cannot be considered mentally healthy. Such individuals typically lead… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Those who have chosen the path of least resistance in life, who cannot bear to bring themselves to make a stern value-judgment in criticism… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live vicariously through… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesnt like to do. — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven. — Laozi Copy Share Image
If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow… — Laozi Copy Share Image
He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Do nondoing, strive for nonstriving, savor the flavorless, regard the small as important, make much of little, repay enmity with virtue; plan for difficulty… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more. — Masaru Ibuka Copy Share Image
It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all, serious photographers… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
“Heri kuwa maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
I would never want to model as my career, but fashion is my hobby. When you love what you're wearing, you feel good. I… — Maria Valverde Copy Share Image
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees,… — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
