About Quote by Charles Duhigg

There are a lot of things that we crave, there are a lot of things that would make us perhaps more fulfilled in a…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“People sometimes imagine that without desire there would be no enjoyment. The opposite is true. When you're caught up in craving, you never really…

— Lorne Ladner

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as…

— Cesare Pavese

The basic human reaction to pleasure is not satisfaction, but rather craving for more. Hence, no matter what we achieve, it only increases our…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Obviously, we all want to feel pleasure. It can't be one of our highest priorities because, simply put, anything worthwhile in life is going…

— Mark Manson

The truth is, we are a culture built on a reward system, and our instinctive pursuit of pleasure can often lead us astray. We…

— Dan Levy

The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether…

— Alan Watts

For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire…

— Nathaniel Branden

The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.

— William James

“From another corner of neuroscience, we’re learning about a neurotransmitter called dopamine. Though there are more than fifty neurotransmitters (that we know of), scientists…

— Jeffrey Foote

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases…

— Alex Campbell

It is odd how we sometimes deny ourselves the very pleasure we have longed for and which is finally within our reach.

— Cynthia Rylant