Indulgence Quotes

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

“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!”
― Mae West

“An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“Desire or impassioned liking go with a demanding and ongoing quest, and therefore patience and indulgence are decisive to hitting the trail to empathizing people and finding out the right contexts in life. ( “Twilight of desire “ )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Since we are living in an open society with a space for tolerance and indulgence, we must monitor assiduously the permanent changes of habits and customs and the "normality barometer" should be determined and adjusted, time after time. ("On a doggy day”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun…”
― Jim Morrison

“Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.”
― Mick Jagger

“Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.”
― Richard Halliburton

“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“She keeps that haughty look, but her shoulders stiffen and she has to work a bit harder to lift her perfect nose in the air. I know I shouldn’t enjoy her misery as much as I do. I also shouldn’t have a second buttered roll with my breakfast every morning, but sometimes one must indulge.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Tailor

“There is no pleasure that I haven't made myself sick on.”
― Philip Seymour Hoffman

“Our soul is sometimes a king, sometimes a tyrant. An uncontrolled, over-indulged soul is turned from a king to the most-feared tyrant.”
― Seneca

“I think how heavenly it must be to nibble on tiny cakes and swirled caramels and plum ginger puffs all day. Tea with lemon petit fours in the afternoon; after-dinner mint truffles with butterscotch coffee in the evening. My mind swims with the notion of it. The easy, sugar-induced lull that would follow me into candy-tinted dreams each night. Life here, in Valentine's Town, would surely be simple and uncomplicated.”
― Shea Ernshaw, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas

“...我追求的是十分完美无缺的东西，所以才这么难。”

“完美无缺的爱？”

“不不。就算我再���么样也不敢那么追求。我所求的只是容许我任性，百分之百的任性。比方说，我现在对你说想吃酥饼，你就什么也不顾地跑去买，气喘吁吁地跑回来递给我，说：'喏，绿子，这就是酥饼。' 可我却说：'我又懒得吃这玩意儿了！' 说着 '呼' 的一声从窗口扔出。这就是我所追求的。”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Sensuality sets the ultimate indulgence.”
― Lebo Grand

“If you can’t control your sexuality, you will have a hard time maintaining your sensuality.

One of my favorite quotes is by Robert Farrar Capon when he says we are given appetites, not to consume the world, but to taste its goodness.”
― Lebo Grand

“What the hell has he been wasting his time doing? Indulging his insanity, that’s what.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“What people do with their money is not a private affair, each penny above necessity belongs to social welfare.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“The 'life of the party' is subject to enjoying the shortest life, and suffering the longest death the world has to offer.”
― T.F. Hodge

“The 'life of the party' is subject to enjoying the shortest life, and suffering the longest death the world has to offer... voluntarily.”
― T.F. Hodge

“If parents can instill self-control in their children, they can achieve a powerful and important effect that will benefit their offspring for years to come. Indulgent parenting and an excessive concern with maximizing children’s self-esteem may, however, be detrimental to self-control, producing instead a personality that is weak, narcissistic, and self-indulgent.”
― christopher peterson, Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification

“As Royalty, indulgence in pleasurable experiences is 100% allowed and also encouraged”
― Rachel D. Greenwell, How To Wear A Crown: A Practical Guide To Knowing Your Worth

“Before we do anything, here's the first lesson in dessert making: don't stint on any of the good stuff. Fill it up with butter, and cream, and sugar, and fruit. All the things we want loads of but really shouldn't have. It should feel decadent."
That's her grandfather talking, of course: "Pudding is an indulgence; it should feel like it," he used to say. She could recall one day, in the kitchen of their house in London, when she was maybe nine or ten, helping her mother frost a birthday cake for one of her sisters (Meg, surely; Julia had given up cake, by that point). Elliott sat on a stool at the kitchen island, watching them, guiding Susan's technique: "Take off just enough of the frosting to give a smooth appearance, but don't scrape it all off. The whole point of cake is the frosting, isn't it? You don't want a bare cake."
"Julia would," Susan commented with a wry smile.
"Julia doesn't appreciate things like this" was Elliott's response.
"Now, now," Susan's mother gently remonstrated with a warning look at her father-in-law.
"Well, I worry about Julia," he said. "If you can't indulge in a little cake now and again, what sort of joy do you have in your life? Can you indulge in anything? And yes, cake is an indulgence. You don't need it, but you want it. It should feel celebratory and just a little delightfully naughty when you have it. It's the same with any dessert.”
― Brianne Moore, All Stirred Up

“If a child of God is seeking justice, we indulge in self-pity, and self-pity is a relative of pride, and pride just gives no room for God.”
― John M. Sheehan

“You are made with sensuality, not so that you may become a sex machine but rather that you may have enough depth for intimacy and practical insights to make love appropriately, meeting the requirements of passion, romance, and dreams of ecstasy.”
― Lebo Grand

“The energy that it takes to make real soul-satiating love takes a lot of sensual investment in one’s self.”
― Lebo Grand

“Sacrosanctis was in fact the public face of a corporate conspiracy between the leading men of three powerful European families: the Medici (in the form of Pope Leo); Jakob Fugger, head of the Augsburg banking and mining dynasty and a man often said to have been the richest in human history; and Albert, archbishop of Mainz, a member of the politically influential Hohenzollern dynasty and (not coincidentally) the man to whom Luther mailed the first copy of his Theses.
The nature of the agreement between these three was broadly thus: Albert, who was already archbishop of Magdeburg, had been permitted by the pope to become archbishop of Mainz at the same time – which made him the most senior churchman in Germany, and meant he controlled two of the seven electoral votes which determined the identity of the German emperor. (His brother already controlled a third.) Vast fees were due to Rome as a tax on taking office as an archbishop – but Albert could afford these, thanks to a loan from Fugger, who advanced the money on the basis that he would have the Hohenzollern and their electoral votes in his pocket. Albert, for his part, promised Leo he would do all he could to make sure that German Christians bought as many indulgences as possible, partly because his share of the proceeds could repay his debt to Fugger and partly so that funds would flow rapidly to Leo in Rome for the completion of St Peter’s. For the parties involved this was a neat arrangement by which they all got what they wanted – so long as the faithful did their part and kept pumping money into pardons.”
― Dan Jones, Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

“The fool says that consequences are a myth, so his indulgence knows no end. Yet, the greater fool is the one who eventually realizes that the consequences are not a myth at all. Rather, they choose to believe that they are a product of not having indulged enough.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“For years, I had chosen to espouse addiction, sex, and success, rather than espousing the one who actually, truly, fully, cared about me. I had to live in lavish indulgence of my sin for years, before I was able to realize that it couldn’t ever fully satisfy.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose