Abstaining Quotes

“Why am I impatient I am unsure for what is patience? And why should I ultimately feel that I am lacking in it.
Is it timing? Waiting?
Abstaining?
Obligation?
Longing?
Torture?
Perseverance?
Discipline?
Wanting?
Someone recently referred to it as a staring contest between yourself, fate, god and chance. He also referred to it as a tease, a flirt. It's staring at her image when you want to hear her voice, feel her breath, taste her skin. Patience is the recovery from a really hot dream interrupted by the damn alarm clock. Patience is a hard cock with bound hands.”
― Leonora Morrison, The Bed and the Bookcase

“The COVID-19 pandemic has made abstaining from butt wiping fashionable.”
― Steven Magee

“Abstaining from butt wiping is the solution to the COVID-19 toilet paper crisis!”
― Steven Magee

“The purpose of dating is to collect date, not sleep with them.”
― Gugu Mofokeng

“The main thing people focused on in the Twelve Steps was sobriety. We went from glorying in our drug stories to deriding them. Still, we were always sharing stories about drugs. The difference now was that we shared how dumb drugs were instead of how awesome they were. Either way, however, we were constantly thinking and talking about drugs. Even though we’d successfully stopped taking drugs, all of our focus and effort was still concentrated on and centered around them, or rather abstaining from them.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“I remember Samuel smiling at me encouragingly, with all the patience in the world. “I’m not telling you to do anything; you can do as you wish. I just want you to know that those things will have negative consequences. I have a feeling that you can tell me more reasons why you shouldn’t let those things rule your life than I can, but the decision is still in your hands. I just want you to see things clearly, not just for the initial thrill they might bring, but the whole picture, the long-term cost, and everything else. The more you indulge in these things now, the more tied up with them you will become, and the longer it will take for you to gain stability and heal. More importantly, trying to remove these things on your own will only lead to greater emptiness. Unless you replace these desires with something better and more fulfilling, you will always feel like you are missing out by abstaining from them.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose