Quotes About Gratification

After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.

A sacred spiritual-life is the greatest gratification

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!

The final answer is that God rewards fasting because fasting expresses the cry of the heart that nothing on the earth can satisfy our souls besides God. God must reward this cry because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.5

Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

Sensual indulgence weakens the mind and debases the soul. The moral and intellectual powers are benumbed and paralyzed by the gratification of the animal propensities and it is impossible for the slave of passion to realize the sacred obligation of the Law of God, to appreciate the atonement, or to place right value upon the soul.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

To finally have people receive and hear what I'm saying is one of the most gratifying feelings an artist can ever have.

Receiving money for something that was a pleasure to begin with is a little outrageous.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

When the work that you put in is recognised, it makes you feel very proud.

I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.

I think I definitely enjoy recording, but I think it's more fun to go out and perform live, because it's like instant gratification, you know? You feel the response immediately.

I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes.

You have to be able to wake up every day and be happy with what your decision in life is, and that's why I never recruit.

Thus come many blessings to the man who owneth his own house. And greatly will it reduce his cost of living, making available more of his earnings for pleasures and the gratification of his desires. This, then, is the fifth cure for a lean purse: Own thy own home.

Which desirest thou the most? Is it the gratification of thy desires of each day, a jewel, a bit of finery, better raiment, more food; things quickly gone and forgotten? Or is it substantial belongings, gold, lands, herds,merchandise, income-bringing investments? The coins thou takest from thy purse bring the first. The coins thou leavest within it will bring the latter.

ESTE, ENTONCES, ES EL SEGUNDO REMEDIO PARA UNA BOLSA ESCASA. PRESUPUESTA TUS GASTOS PARA QUE TENGAS LAS MONEDAS CON LAS CUALES PAGAR POR TODO LO QUE NECESITAS, PARA PAGAR LO QUE DISFRUTAS Y PARA GRATIFICAR LOS DESEOS QUE VALEN LA PENA, SIN GASTAR MÁS DE NUEVE DÉCIMAS PARTES DE LO QUE GANAS».

I say to you that just as weeds grow in a field wherever the farmer leaves space for their roots, even so freely do desires grow in men whenever there is a possibility of their being gratified. Thy desires are a multitude and those that thou mayest gratify are but few.

In this case, said Randall unpleasantly, it affords me purer gratification to dwell upon the thought of my dear Aunt Gertrude duped and betrayed. Your aunt doesn't suffer throught it! What a pity! said Randall.

He had expected to have been received, if not with gratification, at least with pleasure: it had been a piece of condescension on the part of the head of the family to have visited its reprobate, but the reprobate was apparently unaware of this.

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most human beings live only for the gratification of it. ARISTOTLE