Indulgence Quotes - Page 14

• Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Soul

  William Law (1726). “A practical treatise upon Christian perfection”, p.42

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• The president has to project to the American people a sense of demanding idealism. Idealism which is not based in self-indulgence, but on self-denial and sacrifice, and on this such an America is going to be credible to the world.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Sacrifice, Self, America

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary speech is usually corrected when it's transcribed into written prose.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Self, Ordinary, Speech

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.64, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.

  Harold Prince

  Heart, Self, Sick

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• Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

  Tom Robbins

  Ego, Autobiography

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• Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

  Thomas Sowell

  Thinking, Self, Opposites

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• One of my personal indulgences is getting a weekly massage - it helps to re-align my body. I usually feel so much less tense after I've gotten rid of some knots in my shoulders and back.

  Noureen DeWulf

  Body, Massage, Helping

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Self, Cards, Credit

  "Because you're worth it" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2006.

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• The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.

  Edward Gibbon

  Religious, Reflection, People

  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ch. 2 (1776 - 1788)

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• In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

  Dean Koontz

  Hero, Sacrifice, Self

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.607, Bantam

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• The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop power of self-mastery that he may never be a slave to indulgence or other weaknesses, to develop [strong] manhood, beautiful womanhood that in every child and every youth may be found at least the promise of a friend, a companion, one who later may be fit for husband or wife, an exemplary father or a loving intelligent mother, one who can face life with courage, meet disaster with fortitude, and face death without fear.

  David O. McKay

  Beautiful, Mother, Strong

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• As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.

  William Shakespeare

  Tempest, Crime, Pardon

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.18

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• Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure. You try to conceal the emptiness with more extravagance, only to find the thrills becoming less satisfying and more fleeting. Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. However you try to disguise it, you end up feeding without being nourished.

  Brandon Mull

  Real, Trying, Extravagance

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• The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.

  Grover Cleveland

  Character, Government, Expectations

  Grover Cleveland (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”

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• I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do it.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Good Enough, Enough

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We still live in a world of such gross injustice and inequality, that only privileged people like ourselves can afford to think of eros and art as top concerns in life. They are important, for sure, but I think it's high time to shift priorities around, away from selfish indulgence, and toward more concern for the wellbeing of so many others who suffer atrocities, injustice, and famine, all over the planet.

  Massimo Pigliucci

  Art, Selfish, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There is a middle path between indulgence and suppression, but the culture has overwhelmed that in the cacophony that has been created in the modern world and the commercial encouragement of avoidance and indulgence on the one hand, or suppression and "just do it," treating yourself as an object on the other. We've got to find a way that's more compassionate, softer, that allows us to move forward towards the kind of lives that we really want to live.

  Steven C. Hayes

  Encouragement, Moving, World

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It does seem like if you're an interesting person and you have endless amounts of money to indulge your fantasies, then those fantasies will be plagued with guilt about that level of indulgence. It really becomes a self-defeating exercise in pursuing hedonistic desires in any sort of normal or guiltless fashion.

  Lawrence Douglas

  Fashion, Exercise, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sin is one thing but instinctive reaction or passion is another. These are our reactions: pride, anger, sexual indulgence, hate, greed, and so on. The corresponding sins are the gratification of these passions: when a man acts and brings into corporeal reality those works which were suggested to him by his desires. It is impossible to exist without desires arising, but not to give way to them is by no means impossible.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Hate, Passion

  Saint Dorotheus (of Gaza) (1977). “Discourses and Sayings”

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• 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 you, so you have to pursue more and more unpleasant pastimes in order to satisfy the armchair people. That's a kind of scary existence.

  Emily Haines

  Self, Order, People

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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• There's not a lot of whimsicality in the form, not a lot of indulgence allowed. Like when I was younger, I would sometimes go, "Oh, every other section will be narrated by a chair." Or, "It will be a double helix shape!" That never really worked.

  George Saunders

  Shapes, Sometimes, Form

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Jimmy had been full of himself back then, thinks Snowman with indulgence and a little envy. He’d been unhappy too, of course. It went without saying, his unhappiness. He’d put a lot of energy into it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Envy, Unhappy

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• But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence.

  Libba Bray

  Son, Men, Different

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.605, Delacorte Press

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• It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.

  John Green

  People, Chocolate, Dying

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.18, Penguin

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• After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist.

  Alex Scarrow

  Art, Real, Mind

  "TimeRiders: The Eternal War". Book by Alex Scarrow, July 14, 2011.

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