Gratified Quotes

28 quotes from 27 authors

When a moment feels just right, the words often echo that sense. Here are twenty‑eight brief reflections, each from a different source, that capture that satisfied vibe.

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The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Whatever you think you do well, do it. There is nothing better than feeling gratified.”

Mike McManus

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We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Aesop

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“It gratified all the vicious vanity that was in him;”

Mark Twain

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“beautifully gratified," said Mrs. Bhaer, taking Teddy's”

Louisa May Alcott

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Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

Samuel Richardson

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Passion is always suffering, even when gratified.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified.

Cathleen Schine

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There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be.

Colleen McCullough

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I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

Samuel Johnson

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I am very gratified to have lived to see a revolution in the field of work/life: Everyone - men and women, employees…

Stewart D. Friedman

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I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one…

Macaulay Culkin

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“Our brain craves continual stimulation, is drawn to novelty, and likes to be instantly gratified.”

Matt Lewis

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Throughout my life, I've been gratified that I've been able to keep the child in me alive and inspire others.

Jonathan Winters

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“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We’ve got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come…

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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I'm certainly gratified that my name helps a film like this get made, and it's a film that Phillip has wanted to…

Brendan Fraser

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“What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic…

Erik Pevernagie

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Whenever Black succeeds in assuming the initiative in maintaining it to a successful conclusion, the sporting spirit of the chess lover feels…

Savielly Tartakower

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I delight in the diffusion of learning; yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large…

Walter Savage Landor

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I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me…

Elvin Jones

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I'm so much more gratified by my life now that I have an expertise. I wake up every day thinking about a…

Angela Duckworth

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I am gratified on a regular basis by the people I meet all across the country who dedicate their efforts to protecting…

Laurie David

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“The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint: the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me,…

Charlotte Brontë

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“Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.”

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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If you tell a narcissist that someone is less than them in any way, they feel gratified; they feel very good about…

Indya Moore

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I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and…

Barry Schwartz

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For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse…

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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