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Quotes About Temptation

The biggest TEMPTATION of life is to Convert dreams into reality. But the biggest defeat of life comes when We surrender our dreams to reality.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
Always remember.. In life, temptations are put in front of us to challenge our loyalty and respect.
~ Unknown
Young enough to know I can, old enough to know I shouldn't, stupid enough to do it anyway.
~ Unknown
The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not...
~ Unknown
Alcohol is the cause and the solution to many of life's problems.
~ Dan Castellaneta
The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.
~ John Wycliffe
A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
~ Unknown
Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now.
~ Unknown
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
~ Albert Einstein
Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.
~ Channing Tatum
Unhappiness within our own life will lead us to find happiness in forbidden places
~ Unknown
Temptation may break me, procrastination may bind me, but motivation will push me, and devotion will save me.
~ Unknown
Et chaque fois la lâcheté qui nous détourne de toute tâche difficile, de toute oeuvre importante, m'a conseillé de laisser cela, de boire mon thé en pensant simplement à mes ennuis d'aujourd'hui, à mes désirs de demain qui se laissent remâcher sans peine.
~ Marcel Proust
even while deceiving him, she loved him. How often we sacrifice the fulfillment of a possible happiness to our impatience for an immediate pleasure!
~ Marcel Proust
No hay nadie, por muy virtuoso que sea, que por causa de la complejidad de las circunstancias, no pueda llegar algún día a vivir en familiaridad con el vicio que más rigurosamente condena.
~ Marcel Proust
Nothing so tempts us to approach another person as what is keeping us apart; and what barrier is so insurmountable as silence? It has been said also that silence is torture, capable of goading to madness the man who is condemned to it in a prison cell. But what an even greater torture than that of having to keep silence it is to have to endure the silence of the person one loves!
~ Marcel Proust
Humanity is a very old institution. Heredity, cross-breeding have given an irresistible force to bad habits, to vicious reflexes. One person sneezes and gasps because he is passing a rosebush, another breaks out in an eruption at the smell of wet paint, has frequent attacks of colic if he has to start on a journey, and grandchildren of thieves who are themselves millionaires and generous cannot resist the temptation to rob you of fifty francs.
~ Marcel Proust
every time that she indulged in it, pleasure came to her attended by evil thoughts such as, ordinarily, had no place in her virtuous mind, she came at length to see in pleasure itself something diabolical, to identify it with Evil.
~ Marcel Proust
The glutton usually realizes that gout is ever ready to pounce, and that alcohol is bad for him. But possible disaster weighs light in the scale against certain pleasure.
~ Marcel Proust
Il regarda sa fille et la trouva vierge et désirable.
~ Unknown
Cuando me di cuenta que el mundo era como esa naranja me dieron unas ganas tremendas de comerme un pedazo del mundo. Sentía una sed terrible y los dientes se me salían de la boca por ir a darle un mordisco.
~ Unknown
Hace unos días encontré, entremedio de sus papeles, el discurso que dio el arquitecto Renzo Piancuando cuandofue galardonado con el Pritzker. Natasha había subrayado la siguiente frase: «Ã¢â'¬Â¦ y asi seguimos remando contra la corriente empujados sin pausa hacia el pasado. Es una imagen maravillosa, que representa la condición humana. El pasado es un refugio seguro, una tentación constante y, sin embargo, el futuro es el único sitio donde podemos ir».
~ Unknown
No me dejará sin fumar, es para lo único que me queda voluntad.
~ Unknown