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The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal. — William Hazlitt

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Fuck you silly. The words just popped into his mind. Jesus. Where had that come from? — Joan Kilby

Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you. — Soseki Natsume

Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Guilt is an indulgence, it entangles you in the past. — Gregg Hurwitz

The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot. I saw my life as a whole. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done. Benjamin Franklin — Barbara W. Tuchman

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity. — Saadi

Like a lot of snackers, I recognized that snacking is an indulgence and is all about taste. — Keith Belling

I drink sherry and wine by myself because I like it and I get the sensuous feeling of indulgence ... luxury, bliss, erotic-tinged. — Sylvia Plath

Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence . — Timothy Keller

We should always be realistic about our needs, steer clear of this over indulgence and self imposed poverty nonsense. — Auliq Ice

The indulgence in grief is a blunder. — Benjamin Disraeli

American men are so embarrassed about napping," she said. "They think it is some sort of feminine indulgence. I detest a man who can't nap. — Peter Cameron

Hardship and danger destroys fewer people than indulgence. — Helen MacInnes

If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water. — Herman Melville

Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Billionaires' Indulgence is decadent, debauched and sinfully delicious. — Scarlett Avery

No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius

The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept. — George Carlin

Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life. — Benjamin Disraeli

Aye, so: there is love, and there is indulgence, and they may touch sometimes but they're not the same. — Jude Morgan

God in tender indulgence to our different dispositions; has strewed the Bible with flowers, dignified it with wonders, and enriched it with delight. — James Hervey

Networking events often resembled a pandemonium of self-indulgence with the pleasures of flesh on display. — Elise Icten

The taste for luxuries increases with marvelous rapidity under indulgence.
("A Night In An Old Castle") — George Payne Rainsford James

To keep in the rear of opportunity in matters of indulgence is as valuable a habit as to keep abreast of opportunity in matters of enterprise. — Thomas Hardy

Most people die old, full of pain and regret. Or young and full of drugs and self-indulgence - or sheer bad luck. — Caroline Kepnes

The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step. — Calista Flockhart

But tears are an indulgence. Memory sings. — May Sarton

But in future keep the things that hurt to myself alone. They can be my secret indulgence. — Daphne Du Maurier

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. — Ayn Rand

All life is a jest, Imhotep - and it is death who laughs last. Do you not hear it at every feast? Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you die. — Agatha Christie

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. — Mahatma Gandhi

For him (LBJ) food was not an indulgence but and intoxicant, an object he reached for to fill a gaping void, one he could never fill up. — Jonathan Darman

Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on. — Audre Lorde

Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog. — C.S. Lewis

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age. — Isaac D'Israeli

Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice. — George Eliot

A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development. — P.D. James

Books, books and more books. Her main indulgence. — Cherrie Lynn

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come. — Dalai Lama

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence. — Juvenal

Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one. — Fanny Fern

To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion — Richard J. Foster

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption. — Jimmy Carter

A motorcycle is only an ordinary bicycle driven crazy by over-indulgence in gasoline." "How — Amy Bell Marlowe

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. — Audre Lorde

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh. — Shirley Henderson

The Billionaires' Indulgence series is addicting and a heck of a wild ride! — Scarlett Avery

The mother's love is not given to us to spoil us with indulgence, but to soften our hearts, that we may in turn soften others with kindness. — Paramahansa Yogananda

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

Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence — C.S. Lewis

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

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle. — Billy Graham

The bigger the better; in everything. — Freddie Mercury

On every shopping trip, there is one indulgence. — Judy Blundell

Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence. — Horace

Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain. — Mahatma Gandhi

Shame can be self-indulgence too. — Eleanor Clark

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

Love is just a mask. All we search is a Comfort, Acceptance. Consolation. Affirmation. Assurance. Indulgence. Isolation. Absolution and Remission. — Sarvesh Jain

O woman, thou art my imperfection! — Pawan Mishra

The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt. — Nicolas Chamfort

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi

Guilt is a self-indulgence. — Marian Keyes

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people — Al-Ghazali

In the heir's world, where everything was available, the unattainable had a wild allure. — Geraldine Brooks

Self-denial in the pursuit of purpose generates true pleasure while self-indulgence in the pursuit of pleasure generates true misery. — Orrin Woodward

God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensual darkness from his eyes, but I could not. — Anne Bronte

The Western world's sole objective seems to be success, status, security, self-indulgence, pleasure, and comfort. — Billy Graham

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness. — George MacDonald

Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government. — Mitt Romney

Nothing perhaps increases by indulgence more than a desultory habit of reading, especially under such opportunities of gratifying it. — Walter Scott

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. — Walter Savage Landor

The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt. — Plato

We are suggesting a new kind of opulence, of intelligent indulgence over blind gluttony. — Naeem Khan

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant. — Mason Cooley

Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding. — Liam Neeson

Feelings are not always a guide to truth, and guilt is an indulgence you cannot afford. It clouds the mind. — Eileen Wilks

In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not. — Antoine Rivarol

What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence. — Woodrow Wilson

Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis. — Honore De Balzac

Pandering candidates often promise that they can make the pain go away. — Gail Collins

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive. — Rob Brydon

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego. — John Kenneth Galbraith

time - that true happiness is found, not in the indulgence of pride and luxury, but in communion with God through his created works. — Ellen G. White

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

I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence. — Frederick Lenz

[I] learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming. — James Black

Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence. — David A. Bednar

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful! — Mae West

Facials are my biggest beauty indulgence. Looking good is about having a good base. It's about taking care of your skin. — Halle Berry

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego. — Ambrose Bierce

Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic. — Jane Austen

Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe. — Dave Morris

I want to score this book 10. - Kazkgb
Billionaire's Indulgence #1 — Scarlett Avery

Anger was the indulgence of a child, not a queen. — Erika Johansen

She was an indulgence, a dangerous one, but weren't those the best kind? — Chanel Cleeton