#indulge

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#arrives #believed #both #coming #either

Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a producer as well. My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it's still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#always #bell #best #did #fun

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#discuss #gossip #indulgence #juicy #piece

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#conservation #earth #environment #greed #indulgence

Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#being #central #characters #find #grey

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#assembly #before #distinguished #especially #followed

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#everyone #indulge #thyself

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God. ↗

— Charles Williams

#emotional #famous #generally #god #immediate

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied. ↗

— John Woolman

#case #cast #civil #civil society #disorder

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#fairly #i #indulge #less #myself