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• I always treat myself to one meal on Sundays when I can have whatever I want. Usually it's pizza, which is my favorite indulgence.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Sunday, Meals, Want

  "Beyonce Knowles Opens Up About Actual Diet" by Christine Thomasos, www.christianpost.com. March 20, 2013.

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• If a fast doesn't include any sacrifices, then it's not a fast. The discomfort is where the magic happens. Life zips along, unchecked and automatic. We default to our lifestyles, enjoying our privileges tra la la, but a fast interrupts that rote trajectory. Jesus gets a fresh platform in the empty space where indulgence resided.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Space

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• The indulgence of one sin opens the door to further sins. The indulgence of one sin diverts the soul from the use of those means by which all other sins should be resisted.

  John Owen

  Mean, Doors, Soul

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• Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will now admit that both have contributed splendid talents, spotless integrity, ardent patriotism, and disinterested sacrifices to the formation and administration of this Government, and that both have required a liberal indulgence for a portion of human infirmity and error.

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, Integrity, Party

  John Quincy Adams, Kenneth V. Jones, United States. President (1825-1829 : Adams) (1970). “John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.

  Egerton Brydges

  Eye, Soul, Sensual

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• The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Self, Extravagance

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• Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice

  Maryam Jameelah

  Struggle, Adversity, Sacrifice

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• You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of 'Save the Earth' bumper stickers. You do it by articulating a vision for the future and pursuing it with all the ingenuity humanity can muster.

  Alex Steffen

  Inspirational, Hair, Humanity

  "The Next Green Revolution" by Alex Steffen, www.wired.com. May 1, 2006.

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• If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.

  Victor Hugo

  Poverty, Chance, Wealth

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.61, Wordsworth Editions

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• We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kindness, Wind, Selfishness

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• The feeling that "I am enough" does not mean that I have nothing to learn, nothing further to achieve, and nowhere to grow to. It means that I accept myself, that I am not on trial in my own eyes, that I value and respect myself. This is not an act of indulgence but of courage.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mean, Eye, Self

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• When we make decisions, about eating or anything else, with an attitude of kindness and acceptance toward ourselves, with awareness of what is involved in our choices, the conflict between deprivation and indulgence ceases to exist.

  Cheri Huber

  Attitude, Kindness, Acceptance

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• All the Saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. And your prayers, my dear friends, your indulgence, your love, your faith and your hope accompany me.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Prayer, Love You, Saint

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• He who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self-indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation.

  George S. Clason

  Self, Wind, Sowing

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.78, Lulu.com

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• Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

  Peter McWilliams

  Men, Thinking, Luxury

  Peter McWilliams (1995). “Love 101: to love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance”

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• Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Self, Restraint, Propensity

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• The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Attitude, Philosophical, Sarcasm

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• Both in individuals and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to depreciate whatever we have overpraised, and, on the other hand, to show undue indulgence where we have shown undue rigor.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Hands, Excitement, Individual

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• I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health.

  Robin Sharma

  Passion, Expression, Creative

  "How I Start My Day: Robin Sharma". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. June 20, 2013.

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• The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong. Our attitude towards our equals in age consists in a servile solemnity, overlying a considerable degree of indifference or disdain. Our attitude towards children consists in a condescending indulgence, overlying an unfathomable respect.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Attitude, People

  "The Defendant". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Indulge, Willing, Persons

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.230, Cambridge University Press

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• Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Would Be, Asceticism

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• When we don't get any treats, we feel depleted, resentful, and angry, and we feel justified in self-indulgence. We start to crave comfort - and grab that comfort wherever we can, even if it means breaking good habits.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Mean, Self, Comfort

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• Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience.

  Rory Vaden

  Procrastination, Intention, Results

  Rory Vaden (2015). “Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time”, p.113, Penguin

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• In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything.

  Martin Luther

  Writing, Beer, Loss

  Martin Luther (1967). “Selected Writings of Martin Luther: 1520 523”

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