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
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
We're used to the characteristics of social media - participation, connection, instant gratification - and when school doesn't offer the same, it's… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt,… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
It’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. If you didn’t get… — Charlie Munger 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
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
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
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
There is no waiting and no delayed gratification because yoga is both the means and the result, and the seed of all… — Donna Farhi 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
So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I like the challenge and instant gratification of landing a new jump or learning a new element. That made me fall in… — Nathan Chen Copy Share Image
Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement,… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base… — James T. Rapier Copy Share Image
It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most human beings live only for the gratification of it. ARISTOTLE” — Gerald G. May Copy Share Image
I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
We got instant gratification when we would slip in one of our own songs and people would cheer. We started getting a… — Gord Downie Copy Share Image
To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation. — Walter Benjamin 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
How many thousands ... earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession -- I… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
