Adopted Quote by Andrew Vachss

This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.

— Ian Mcewan

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

— James Dean

“More often than not, people who are obsessed with their desires and feelings are generally unhappier in life vs. people that refocus their attention…

— Shannon L. Alder

There is unspeakable joy... for the person who knows release from guilt and the relief of forgiveness.

— Stuart Briscoe

Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when…

— David Hume

No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve…

— Sue Grafton

Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children…

— Michel de Montaigne

I really wanted to get out of that cycle in our family where somebody's taking revenge on somebody for some slight that happened thirty…

— Marco Roth

Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don't feel worthy once they have them.

— Oprah Winfrey

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

— Daisaku Ikeda

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

— Simone Weil

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between…

— Adrienne Rich