Now our next word was abstain. And that means not do something that is enjoyable but bad for you. So Rob needs to abstain from eating cakes if he wants to wear his skinny jeans.
In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character, not brains so much as heart, not genius so much as self control, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment.
The guests had, of course, realized this from the moment Bessie opened the door for them and, long before the final catastrophe, had had a difficult time trying to conceal their amusement.
I intentionally try to hold back from doing those things sometimes because I know that if I'm constantly doing them, I'm going to end up feeling like, why am I carrying all of this load?