Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You are sexually pure when no sexual gratification comes from anyone or anything but your wife. — Steve Arterburn Copy Share Image
Being on stage is, like, my favorite. The immediate gratification. That's my favorite. — Tiffany Haddish Copy Share Image
Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media. — Katherine Ryan Copy Share Image
I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work. — Gregor Mendel Copy Share Image
The conquest of passion gives ten times more happiness than we can reap from the gratification of it — Richard Steele Sr Copy Share Image
“Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mistake many of us make is the need… — Charles F. Glassman Copy Share Image
If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term,… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you - and the more gratification you will fell… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from… — Thomas Keller Copy Share Image
I'm a sucker for good black skirts and pretty little shirts and kooky tops. I have to admit that shopping satisfies my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five… — Questlove Copy Share Image
It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Music and dancing employed in sense gratification are to be accepted as demoniac, but the same music and dancing, when employed in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When things start becoming second nature, I get a little paranoid because I feel like maybe my craft isn't evolving. I get… — Eugene Souleiman Copy Share Image
This is the great truth life has to teach us ... that gratification of our individual desires and expression of our personal… — Hortense Odlum Copy Share Image
Real peace comes only when you stop chasing it. When you relax your driving desire for comfort, real fulfillment arises. When you… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
The greatest gratification that I get to work with these hands is that when I come out and I go to the… — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa Copy Share Image
It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“It’s just human psychological truth really. Anything acquired without effort and without cost investment of time and energy is generally unappreciated within… — Scott Abel Copy Share Image
You'd hope that no writing about music could supersede the music itself. But I do think that blogs mirror the way that… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be more admirable than the manner in which for forty years he [Joseph Black] performed this useful and dignified office.… — Henry Peter Brougham Copy Share Image
“The problem of society today: An absolute lifestyle of entitlement. People gauge everything by "feeling", meaning whatever they feel like doing or… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We live in a society right now which is the last phase of the ecosystem in terms of the old entertainment value,… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
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