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Oscar Wilde - "I can resist everything except temptation." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Welcome to The Daily Quote, a podcast designed to kick start
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  your day in a positive way. I'm your host Anna McGivern for
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  September 4th. Today is National Eat a Second
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  Dessert Day, wonderfully indulgent holiday that gives us
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  permission to throw caution to the wind and enjoy life's
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  sweeter moments. In a world that's often focused
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  on restraint, discipline, and everything in moderation, this
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  delightful day reminds us that sometimes it's perfectly OK to
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  have that second slice of cake, the extra scoop of ice cream, or
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  both the chocolate chip cookie and the brownie.
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  There's something beautifully rebellious about this holiday.
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  It celebrates not just dessert, but the idea that life is meant
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  to be savored. After all, how many times have
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  we sat in a restaurant, finished our meal, and found ourselves
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  torn between the sensible choice, which is not having
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  dessert, and the delicious 1? Today gives us permission to
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  choose delicious twice. And that brings us to today's
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  quote from Oscar Wilde, the Irish playwright and poet known
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  for his wit and love of life's pleasures.
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  He once said I can resist everything except temptation.
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  Oscar Wilde understood something that national the second dessert
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  day celebrates perfectly. Sometimes the most honest thing
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  we can do is acknowledge our desires instead of pretending we
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  don't have them. Wilde's quote isn't about being
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  weak willed, it's about being human.
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  Think about it, when we deny ourselves small pleasures
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  completely, we often end up more obsessed with them than if we
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  had just enjoyed them mindfully in the 1st place.
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  There's wisdom and Wilds playful admission that temptation is,
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  well, tempting, and sometimes the healthiest response is in
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  rigid resistance but conscious indulgence.
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  This doesn't mean throwing all self-care out the window, but
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  rather recognizing that life's sweetness, literally and
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  figuratively, is meant to be enjoyed.
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  When we constantly deny ourselves simple pleasures, we
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  risk becoming so focused on what we can't have that we forget to
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  appreciate what we can. That's the wisdom both Wild and
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  this holiday offer us. Sometimes the most reasonable
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  thing to do is to be a little unreasonable.
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  So today, as we celebrate National Eat a Second Dessert
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  Day, let's embrace Oscar Wilde's honest acknowledgement of human
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  nature. Life is full of genuine
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  temptations that bring us joy. An extra cookie.
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  A longer conversation with a friend, One more chapter of a
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  good book. I'm looking at you, Maiva.
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  Maybe today's the day to stop resisting every small pleasure
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  and instead choose to savor them.
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  After all, as wild new a life without any temptation might be
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  virtuous, but it's probably not nearly as sweet.
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  That's going to do it for today. I'm Anna McGivern, signing off
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  for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.