Jim Carrey Quotes

Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

In anything, there has to be that moment of fasting, really, in order to enjoy the feast.

It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

I don't believe in depriving yourself of things you want.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.

I can't do anything in moderation.

Allow yourself a few parties, but be mindful the rest of the time.

It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.

Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.

Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.