Living in a world where people measure their happiness by self-indulgence and decadence, Is like watching a whole society being pushed into the abyss of perpetual decay and aberrations.
Pandering candidates often promise that they can make the pain go away.
Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done. Benjamin Franklin
Sharpen and trust your judgement: learn when spending is a shrewd investment and when it is merely an indulgence
Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad.
Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.
People stick hearts on Valentine's cards and get married in white dresses and give each other flowers. They think love is every-thing going right. That's not love. That's self-indulgence. That's good...
Self-denial in the pursuit of purpose generates true pleasure while self-indulgence in the pursuit of pleasure generates true misery.
I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor.
I’m about to take a shower because I smell like an all-nighter, then I think I’ll take a bath so I can have a faucet orgasm. After all, I didn’t get any last night. A faucet orgasm is pretty much the...
When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves,...