Overindulgence Quotes

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Walt Whitman
“The road to wisdom is paved with excess.

The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.”
Walt Whitman

Candace Schuler
“Her purchases just about busted her vacation budget, but what else is a vacation for, if not for overindulgence and mindless extravagance?”
Candace Schuler, Good Time Girl

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“But my enthusiasm was checked by my anxiety, and I appeared rather like one doomed by slavery to toil in the mines, or any other unwholesome trade than an artist occupied by his favorite employment.”
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Ljupka Cvetanova
“We would have fed the world if we hadn't been throwing away food in the gap between the rich and the poor.”
Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“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

“Their [drugs and sex] inability to satisfy long-term led to dependency and overindulgence; as my tolerance grew, I needed more in order to feel okay. Not only could they not meet my needs, but they left me dysfunctional so that I was unable to face life without them.”
Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“If there was no sensuality, we would die of overindulgence.”
Lebo Grand