Pleasure is built on self-seeking,but joy is based on self-sacrifice.and the more we pursue self-gratification,the more empty we feel. — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
For me, just the sheer fact that I get to act and do this for a living is enough personal gratification and… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Now most of 'Alice' isn't really a political social commentary, but I think a big message is here is that the culture… — Caterina Scorsone Copy Share Image
Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with all addicts,gratification was… — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Symbolic representation makes it possible for instinctual impulses to find disguised, socially acceptable forms of gratification, not as satisfying as direct physical… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“We’re making our decisions … or so we think. Yet in truth, ignorance, greed, and the scourge of immediate gratification are often… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Love is not feeling, child, nor even the passion of lovers, which always seeks only its own gratification. It is the act… — Patricia Duncker Copy Share Image
The problem isn't materialism as such. Rather it is the underlying assumption that full satisfaction can arise from gratifying the senses alone.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“I was beginning to think that I was the subject of some existentialist experiment in permanently delayed gratification when” — John Green Copy Share Image
If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is… — William Mortensen Copy Share Image
We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Watching a movie with an audience is so exciting. For me, coming from TV, you finish an episode and then it airs,… — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The unity and congruity of culture and nature, work and love, morality and sexuality, longed for from time immemorial, will remain a… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary… — Sydney Thompson Dobell Copy Share Image
You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience. — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
We live in a time where there's a required instant gratification from audiences. That's a fun challenge in terms of putting together… — Josh Trank Copy Share Image
It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth… — William Henry Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not… — Greg Ginn Copy Share Image
People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
I believe in intuition and approaching things as instant gratification. Just do the things you want to do, make the kind of… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
“At eighteen most people wish to please, and the conviction that they have not an exterior likely to second that desire brings… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“THE TRUTH ABOUT LIES IS THAT LIES DO GIVE IMMEDIATE SENSE GRATIFICATION AND THAT IS WHY IT IS EVER ACCEPTED BY THE… — DAVID OKAFOR Copy Share Image
I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that -… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
