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• To expect happiness without giving up negative action is like holding your hand in a fire and hoping not to be burned. Of course, no one actually wants to suffer, to be sick, to be cold or hungry - but as long as we continue to indulge in wrong doing we will never put an end to suffering. Likewise, we will never achieve happiness, except through positive deeds, words, and thoughts. Positive action is something we have to cultivate ourselves; it can be neither bought nor stolen, and no one ever stumbles on it just by chance.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Giving Up, Hands, Fire

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• Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Luxury, Enlightenment, Liberty

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• I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.

  Christine Baranski

  Drinking, Clothes, Adore

  Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. June 7, 2006.

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• When I design a collection I strive to make a woman feel as special as the delicate creation she is wearing; take her to an enchanted time and place where women are princesses and magnificent goddesses. In today's modern world we need to pause and indulge in beauty.

  Claire Pettibone

  Princess, Design, Special

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• Love isn't relevant once things are really bad. They say love makes the world go round-but it doesn't, you know. Love is a luxury, and you indulge in it when things are OK. As soon as they are bad-really bad-there just isn't a place for it anymore-no place where there could be room for it

  Celia Fremlin

  Love Is, Luxury, World

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• Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.

  Thomas Hardy

  Fate, Looks, Welcome

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1758, Delphi Classics

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• Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

  Jane Austen

  Reflection, Relief, Delight

  Jane Austen (1946). “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”, p.128, PDFreeBooks.org

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• Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

  John Galsworthy

  Dream, Littles, Forgiven

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• Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered with mortals, he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. Since he is gone where he feels no pain, let us not indulge in too much grief. The soul is incapable of death. And he, like a bird not long enough in his cage to become attached to it, is free to fly away to a purer air. . . . Since we cherish a trust like this, let our outward actions be in accord with it, and let us keep our hearts pure and our minds calm.

  Plutarch

  Life, Pain, Grief

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• Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is in this respect a source of strength for socialism which traditional liberalism sadly lacks. Speculation about general principles provides an opportunity for the play of the imagination of those who are unencumbered by much knowledge of the facts of present-day life. Their ideas suffer from inherent contradictions, and any attempt to put them into practice must produce something utterly different from what they expect.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Philosophy, Character, Opportunity

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• I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.

  Eloisa James

  Christmas, Addiction, Glitter

  "Paris in Love: A Memoir". Book by Eloisa James, April 3, 2012.

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• It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Simple, Thinking, Dangerous

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.141, Harlequin

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• In practice, US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system of government ever devised.

  Matthew Yglesias

  Patriotic, Government, Practice

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• We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.

  Mark Twain

  Cutting, Men, Mad

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.204, Courier Corporation

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• When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Lying, Anxiety, Use

  'Iolanthe' (1882) act 2

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• Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks about it, it is not such a foolish thing to indulge in - particularly if it is the case that in bantering lies the key to human warmth.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Lying, Thinking, Keys

  1989 The Remains of the Day,'Day Six Evening'

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• When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.

  David Levithan

  Rip, Indulge, Ifs

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.25, Egmont UK

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• If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?

  Alethea Kontis

  Interesting, Fantasy, Knows

  Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You still indulge in distrustful fears that things will go wrong, or that people will betray you, or mistreat you; get above all of them.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Inspirational, Fear, People

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting”, p.199, e-artnow

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• Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Encouragement, Strong, Healthy

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.31, Rabindranath Tagore

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• A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Wisdom, Truth, Lying

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1879 - 1880.

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• In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate campaigns. To retaliate with hate and bitterness would do nothing but intensify the hate in the world. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can be done only by projecting the ethics of love to the center of our lives.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, Hate, War

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• I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.

  Grover Cleveland

  Liberty, Libertarian, Approval

  Grover Cleveland (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”

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• Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

  Bill Watterson

  Excess, Financial, Kind

  "The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1990.

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• Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as well. We know that in order to progress we must stretch for something just out of reach--if only for a life that will be more compassionate and decent than the cruelty, paranoia, greed, narrow corporatism, or narcissism we mostly indulge in and find such ample justification for. And so we dream.

  Breyten Breytenbach

  Dream, Order, Creative

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