Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Patience expands your options. If you insist on immediate gratification, your choices are severely limited. — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“I got over it, and I'm now a firm advocate of instant gratification. Carpe diem, Ana.” — E.L. James Copy Share Image
I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification. — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
“Miracles are instant gratification without a guarantee of any long term result.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans. — Bobby Sherman Copy Share Image
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Revenge isn't a benefit, Lo. It’s self-gratification, an emotional response with very little logic and even less reward.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where older religions promised heaven, the church of yoga promises quicker, more practical, earthly gratification, in the form of better heart rates… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at… — George Combe Copy Share Image
“There’s gratification in abstaining from the easy choice. Instant gratification can bring more suffering than pleasure. If I do the hard thing,… — Cecily Wang Copy Share Image
Of course. Opal is toying with our emotions for her own gratification. Nothing more. She wishes to place herself in a position… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
I am very much in the instant-gratification camp. I am too much of an actor not to be. I am used to… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
“Every time you sit down to work, remind yourself: I am delaying gratification by doing this. I am passing the marshmallow test.… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Making a concerted effort to trade your short-term gratification for a longer-term payoff. Whereas everyone else wants to get credit and be… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“That's a really nice thought and I'm grateful for it, but there comes a point when one realizes that gratification of the… — Claire North Copy Share Image
“If one should ask me what "use" there was in climbing, or attempting to climb the world's highest peak, I would be… — George Mallory Copy Share Image
I think human beings have an innate desire to help each other. And whether you're in medicine or anything else, if you… — Michael E. DeBakey Copy Share Image
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
People always tend to identify, instinctively, freedom with abandon.But the type of abandon that seeks personal gratification always gets you "tied up… — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami 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
The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the… — Theodor Adorno 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
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
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
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