Quotes About Self-indulgence

Enjoy your birthday cake today since tomorrow we'll return to judging you based on every single morsel you ingest.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

The man who will not give up his passions, who clings to anger, unkindness, sensuality, pride, vanity self-indulgence, for the momentary pleasure which their gratification affords him is a spiritual miser; he cannot have any spiritual comforts.

Self-indulging is how we worship the idol of comfort, and orienting our lives on whatever promises to provide it in the fastest, easiest, most enjoyable way is how we bow down. As with any kind of idol, the appeal to immediate gratification is why self-indulgence snares us.

All forms of sinful self-indulgence spring from an ungrateful heart. If we live to gratify ourselves with comfort or pleasure of whatever kind, it's because we believe that God is not enough for us. In some hidden recess of our heart, we judge him insufficient when he fails to meet our personal expectations of what we want and think we deserve.

As we keep in step with the Spirit, our thinking changes, and the craving to self-indulge begins to die. And our hearts are humbled, which enables us to see God for who he is and everything we have as a gift. Gratitude to God - not just words of thanks but a heart-deep belief - makes self-indulgence meaningless.

America is ensnared in self-indulgence and its future hangs in the balance. Our moral and spiritual foundations are rapidly being destroyed. Our arrogance is producing a socialist state that is becoming our god. The entitlement state of mind has created a nation that looks to the government for the answer to our problems, when the only answer is, "Our Father which art in heaven.

She was a passionate reader, and she thought that reading was one of the noblest efforts of all; in contrast, she found writing to be a great waste of time—a childish self-indulgence, even messier than finger painting—but she admired reading, which she believed was an unselfish activity that provided information and inspiration. She must have thought it a pity that some poor fools had to waste their lives writing in order for us to have sufficient reading material. (page 236)

He continued to be deeply concerned about the growing self-indulgence of the American people. Wealth was worshiped above all else. To many, admission

for the young Louis XV: Philippe II, Duc d'Orléans, was a man who combined a negligible intellect with deeply committed self-indulgence.

Kummerspeck ("grief bacon") is German for the weight put on from eating too much when feeling sorry for yourself.

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.

It had become his custom, each time he was deserted, to buy a gallon of wine, to stretch out on the comfortably hard bunk and get drunk. Sometimes he cried a little all by himself but it was luxurious stuff and he usually had a wonderful feeling of well-being from it. He would read Rimbaud aloud with a very bad accent, marveling the while at his fluid speech.

When you're feeling despondent just put on more country music. There are thousands of slit-your-wrist hillbilly songs that will make you laugh at your self-indulgence and ultimately cheer you up.

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

One has to differentiate between priorities and self-indulgence. What you have today may disappear tomorrow.

I am not strict vegan, because I'm a hedonist pig. If I see a big chocolate cake that is made with eggs, I'll have it.

She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.

Self-indulgence stays in safe harbor. Obedience always leaves self behind and sails out in faith....Waves present opportunity!

The best way to remain happy for ever is doing things that pleases you.

instead of purifying my character I was multiplying my wants.

I was in a hotel room in Dallas, and I was jerking off so much and so sadly and pathetically, that the phone rang, and I thought it's them, they're complaining. ... "Sir, could you please stop?"

If I really got my ribs removed, I would have been busy sucking my own di.. on the wonder years instead of chasing winnie cooper. Besides, I wouldn't have sucked other people's di..s on stage, either. I would have been sucking my own. Plus, who really has time to be killing puppies when you can be sucking your own di..? I think I'm gonna call the surgeon in the morning.