Quotes About Self-restraint

Others have partially fasted by omitting a certain meal each day, thus strictly limiting the quantity of food consumed.

I can almost never say what I'm thinking at any given moment. I would have been stabbed to death years ago.

Never Consume more than you produce.

sei un mascalzone? E lo sei meno, così? Sorridere quando preferiresti urlare, mostrare gioia e calma quando ti morderesti le dita, lo chiami essere meno mascalzone? E se qui è impossibile non esserlo? Che fai, allora? Te la prendi con Snaut, che è colpevole di tutto, vero? Tutto sommato sei un idiota, mio caro.

The only walls which bind us and stop us achieving our hearts desires are the walls we build for ourselves

My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

No one could tie you tighter than you could tie yourself and it was the ropes you couldn't see that bound you tightest.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

A gentleman does not boast about his junk.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

Roman knew better than to let himself love like that. And yet, when

My limits know me well enough to stay out of my way.

I don't know why I always end up talking about my relationships. I try not to.

I've calmed down already. I don't hook up anymore.

The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it's near. Midtongue.

Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

Even when we had new clothes, we were told not to wear them. You just didn't draw attention to yourself. Showing off was the worst thing you could do. We could put the clothes in the drawers - but not wear them.

Having no emotions is the most difficult, to tone it down.

Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.

There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.

When I fought with Michael Johnson, when I took his arm for the kimura, I can break it, but I go very slowly, be careful, because I don't want to give him injury.

I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.