Self Indulgence Quotes - Page 2

• Shame can be self-indulgence too.

  Eleanor Clark

  Self, Shame, Indulgence

  Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins

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• Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having some sort of emotional trauma, you need to find a person to talk to about it who says, 'This is quite normal; it's fine.'

  Lulu

  Emotional, Self, Normal

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• Writing is an art but also a craft, which means it's a job. I don't teach. This is how the groceries get on the table. You sometimes make creative sacrifices to get the job done. All that said, I'm looking forward to getting out of the two-book-a-year schedule I'm on and to getting some self-indulgence going.

  Charlie Huston

  Art, Jobs, Book

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• When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.

  Idries Shah

  Prayer, Mean, Emotional

  Idries Shah (1991). “Seeker After Truth”, p.22, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.

  Augustus William Hare

  Children, Self, Facts

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.161

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• From the   5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being   indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I am fearful of the harvest. The younger generation is further to the   left than most adults realize. The old concepts of our Founding Fathers are   scoffed and jeered at by young moderns whose goals appear to be the   destruction of integrity and virtue, and the glorification of pleasure,   thrills, and self-indulgence.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Integrity, Philosophy, Father

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• When you learn economy. It strips away self-indulgence. Just in the act itself it requires a certain amount of humility. You have to accept the fact that you might feel you can do better but in the moment you have to make a choice.

  Charlie Huston

  Humility, Self, Choices

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• In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence , an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't?

  Sebastian Junger

  Self, Risk, Way

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• Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

  Mark Haddon

  Children, Reading, Self

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as are the riches of the world today. The rich man has cast off his Divinity, and has clung to his gold. And the young today have forsaken their Divinity and pursue self-indulgence and pleasure.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Self, Gold

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• Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.

  Eric Liu

  Children, Self, Comfort

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• Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence .

  Timothy Keller

  Love Is, Self, Truth Is

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• He who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self-indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation.

  George S. Clason

  Self, Wind, Sowing

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.78, Lulu.com

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• A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Women, Sacrifice

  Circle (1921) act 3

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• Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.

  Donald A. Norman

  Clever, Thinking, Self

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• So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Thinking, Self, Focus

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.211, Modern Library

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• There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Self, Interesting, Records

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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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• Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if believed, can ruin you. If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

  David Brin

  Believe, Writing, Skills

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• Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice

  Maryam Jameelah

  Struggle, Adversity, Sacrifice

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• The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Self, Extravagance

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• 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

  Exercise, Self, Tyrants

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.284, Image

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• Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Selfish, Ambition, Purpose

  C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.27, Multnomah

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• Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

  Iain Banks

  Book, Air, Self

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• It is not what I do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through me. God does not want worldly successes, He wants me. He wants my heart in submission to Him. Life is not just a few years to spend on self indulgence and career advancement. It is a privilege, a responsibility, a stewardship to be lived according to a much higher calling, God's calling. This alone gives true meaning to life.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Responsibility, Heart, Years

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