Dissipation Quotes

Dissipation Quote of the day

Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially curtails the joy and fullness of life.

You have to gather your energy together...conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of your purpose.

You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.

Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.

I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.

What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?

Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation.

At what time does the dissipation of energy begin?

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation

How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.

On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.

I have important business to get to. I plan to sulk all afternoon, followed, perhaps, by an evening of Byronic brooding and a nighttime of dissipation.