Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

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

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.

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

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

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

Taste everything, eat nothing.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

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

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

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

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

Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.

We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

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

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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

It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.

I don't believe in depriving myself; it's an unhealthy state of mind.