Quotes about Self-indulgence

Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

Anything my eyes desired, I did not deny myself. I refused my heart no pleasure. For my heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor.

And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.

Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.

You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.

If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.

I like the pharmacy makeup. I always get stuck in that aisle... I've always liked looking at it.

The West too may find that prosperity and self-indulgence are not sufficient to satisfy human needs.

As a human, I am flawed in that it is difficult for me to consider others before myself. It feels like I have to fight against this force, this current within me that, more often than not, wants to avoid serious issues and please myself, buy things for myself, feed myself, entertain myself, and all of that.