Gratification Quotes

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When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there… — Bruce Dickinson
The gratification of helping others is a very American tradition and a Judeo-Christian tradition. Now it is great to see young people creating funds and… — Evelyn Lauder
Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of… — Samuel Johnson
Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts of the world… — Pope John Paul II
Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive availability… — Pope John Paul II
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more… — Alexis de Tocqueville
It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but… — Samuel Johnson
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters. — Moliere
We demand to be coaxed and comforted, to be encouraged and gratified, so we choose a teacher who will give us what we crave for.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the… — Alan Watts
Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it… — David Hume
The unity and congruity of culture and nature, work and love, morality and sexuality, longed for from time immemorial, will remain a dream as long… — Wilhelm Reich
Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty. — Thorstein Veblen
The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision. — Rollo May
It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later. — Ann Landers
Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits. An association of… — Michael E. DeBakey
Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and… — Richard Steele
Worthless are those who injure others vengefully, while those who stoically endure are like stored gold. The gratification of the vengeful lasts only for a… — Thiruvalluvar
Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the… — Viktor E. Frankl
Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they loved best, they… — Henry Adams

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