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Beyond a certain point, hope is more than self-indulgence. It's self-harm. — Simon R. Green

Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around. — Richard M. Weaver

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

Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?! — Erma Bombeck

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

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence. — Chris Evans

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

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things ... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else. — Aristotle.

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

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

When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward. — Theodore L. Cuyler

Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor. — Barbara W. Tuchman

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

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

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

Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo. — Ambrose Bierce

Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence. — Donald A. Norman

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

Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence. — Idries Shah

So, my credo consists of the pursuit and the act. One without the other is self-indulgence. — Studs Terkel

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

In a world of self indulgence your attitude is going to be your biggest obstacle because you're only concerned with yourself! — Auliq Ice

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

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

Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love. — Louis Faurer

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

Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage. — Gregory Peck

A society devoted to self-destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways. — Dan Simmons

The only thing I can really trust is my own self-indulgence. — Justin Vivian Bond

The rarest offerings of the purest loves are but a self-indulgence, and no generosity at all. — Thomas Hardy

Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad. — Angelina Jolie

For to be afflicted with endless sorrow at the loss of someone very dear is foolish self-indulgence, and to feel none is inhuman callousness. — Seneca.

Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive. — Gordon B. Hinckley

When work is viewed only as a source of economic gain the centrality of work becomes self-indulgence, selfishness and egocentrism. — Sunday Adelaja

Live with hope and courage and lived instead a long season of whining, self-indulgence, and fear. — Shauna Niequist

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Perfect by nature, icons of self indulgence. Just what we need more lies about our world. — Evanescence

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

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

Guilt is a self-indulgence. — Marian Keyes

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

O woman, thou art my imperfection! — Pawan Mishra

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied. — Stephen King

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

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

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

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

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

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

All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private. — Terry Pratchett

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

Shame can be self-indulgence too. — Eleanor Clark

Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias. — Augustus William Hare

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