“The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.”
Thomas Merton
“Think of it, all that speech pouring down, selling nothing, judging nobody…What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, intelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting speech in the world, the talk that rain makes by itself all over the ridges…Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will talk as long as it wants, this rain. As long as it talks I am going to listen.”
“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.”
Tom Wilson
“As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist”
“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it”
Mae West
“I deal with temptation by yielding to it”
Mark Twain
