Indulgence Quotes - Page 7

• When we make decisions, about eating or anything else, with an attitude of kindness and acceptance toward ourselves, with awareness of what is involved in our choices, the conflict between deprivation and indulgence ceases to exist.

  Cheri Huber

  Attitude, Kindness, Acceptance

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• All the Saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. And your prayers, my dear friends, your indulgence, your love, your faith and your hope accompany me.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Prayer, Love You, Saint

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• I always treat myself to one meal on Sundays when I can have whatever I want. Usually it's pizza, which is my favorite indulgence.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Sunday, Meals, Want

  "Beyonce Knowles Opens Up About Actual Diet" by Christine Thomasos, www.christianpost.com. March 20, 2013.

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• In my practice as surgeon, I am impressed by the alarming increase of cancer cases brought to my notice; an increase, which in the light of the general hygienic and sanitary improvements of our time, can point to no other cause than the indulgence in certain foodstuffs detrimental to normal life of the body.

  Charles Horace Mayo

  Cancer, Dark, Light

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• When a society is criticised by outsiders, its members wince but shrug their shoulders. 'What you can expect from strangers?' is the feeling. When the attack comes from within, no such indulgence is shown. 'He was one of us,' runs the refrain.

  Michela Wrong

  Running, Feelings, Ministry

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• An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Luxury, Age, Pleasure

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli. Chapter 8, 1795.

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• Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Dream, Sweet, Luxury

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1990). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Men, Luxury

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• You said how strange it was that people were prepared to buy expensive material objects, but when it came to making an investment in their souls they refused to do so, considering it a monstrous indulgence and a waste of money! (58)

  Sarah Ferguson

  People, Soul, Waste

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• The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

  Laura Marling

  Art, Self, Poetry And Music

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

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• Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

  John Ruskin

  Work, Self, Toil

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• Satanism encourages its followers to indulge in their natural desires. Only by doing so can you be a completely satisfied person with no frustrations which can be harmful to yourself and others around you. Therefore, the most simplified description of the Satanic belief is: indulgence instead of abstinence.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Frustration, Indulge In, Desire

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

  Daryl Hall

  House, Antiques, Architecture

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• The feeling that "I am enough" does not mean that I have nothing to learn, nothing further to achieve, and nowhere to grow to. It means that I accept myself, that I am not on trial in my own eyes, that I value and respect myself. This is not an act of indulgence but of courage.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mean, Eye, Self

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mistake, Blood, People

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• Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, Ego, Fantastic

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1958). “The Affluent Society”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Numbers, Soul, Desire

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• The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.

  Saadi

  Father, Teaching, Masters

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• The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.

  George Santayana

  Heart, Eye, Men

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.120, Рипол Классик

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• Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

  Juvenal

  Pleasure, Produce, Greater

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, Satires, XI, line 208, 1922.

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• For the first time in my life, I felt that a wave, a justice was sweeping away a deep-seated decay without any indulgence. I dearly wished that it would keep going without hesitation or deviation, in a spirit of purity forever.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Justice, Forever, Decay

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• The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Believe, Science, Discovery

  Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.70

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• In describing the honourable mission I charged him with, M. Pernety informed me that he made my name known to you. This leads me to confess that I am not as completely unknown to you as you might believe, but that fearing the ridicule attached to a female scientist, I have previously taken the name of M. LeBlanc in communicating to you those notes that, no doubt, do not deserve the indulgence with which you have responded.

  Sophie Germain

  Believe, Taken, Science

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• Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

  Saul Landau

  Learning, Adults, Boyhood

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• Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

  Joyce Cary

  Heart, Self, Play

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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