Quotes for All
And we can’t discharge that moral responsibility by passing out contraceptives. Contraceptives have been circulating all over Uganda, and it is not clear how many people are using the things. The best contraceptive in this case is abstinence. Eugene Rivers
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. Epictetus
Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed with pure waters, and that is the stain of hatred and bigotry contaminating the soul. You can purify your body through abstinence and fasting, but only love will purify your heart. Elif Safak
I don’t want my wife to sleep with anyone but me, and I want to give her the same respect. Elijah Martin
Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence. Friedrich Nietzsche
Vegetarianism is not implicitly important for the mental progress or the intellectual development, unless it is supposed to be a remedy to clean the body from slag. A temporary abstinence from meat or animal food is indicated only for very specific magic operations as a sort of preparation, and even then only for a certain … Read more
Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast. Francis Quarles
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. Frances E. Willard
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. Dorothy Day
Sex is essentially deep. We become what we do with our bodies, and there is no deeper act than sex. Dietrich von Hildebrand