Quotes About Gratification

For Jacobson, libido and aggression function as indispensable counterbalances to each other. Libido (evoked in moments of gratification) encourages pulling close, taking in; aggression (evoked in moments of frustration) prompts pushing off, moving out.

One of the strongest conviction of delayed gratification is to convince people to have faith in the truth.

Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward. What

For as you go on, you'll be getting more calories, but not necessarily more pleasure.

Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.

I love my Kindle, but there are many books that I need to physically own. I think having the choice makes all the difference. Instant gratification - buying a book digitally and owning it sixty seconds later - really is a revolutionary act.

Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really getting what I want.

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continuously. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright

It is an intoxicating experience to taste Coca-Cola as if for the first time and to be conveyed to the very brink of orgasm by white bread. Makes all the discomfort worthwhile, if you ask me.

More often than not, "spending" money you don't have comes from "expending" emotions you do have. This syndrome is commonly known as retail therapy. Overspending and the need for immediate gratification have little to do with the actual item you're buying, and everything to do with lack of fulfillment in your life.

Samuel Smiles, a nineteenth-century English author, wrote, "It is doubtful whether any heavier curse could be imposed on man than the complete gratification of all his wishes without effort on his part, leaving nothing for his hopes, desires or struggles.

It is doubtful whether any heavier curse could be imposed on man than the complete gratification of all his wishes without effort on his part, leaving nothing for his hopes, desires or struggles."6

Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater

We will not take possession of our birthright of never-ending joy until we find ourselves fully gratified with God and all his actions and judgments, loving and nonviolent toward ourselves and toward all our fellow seekers, and able to love everything God loves. And when we do achieve this state of surrender and love, it is the goodness of God that awakens it in us.

Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

After I win a contest the only thing I allow myself to do is buy a little bit of jewelry - but that's only if I win. And that's about it.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

Fame is like a cheeseburger. It might not be the best or most healthy thing to have, but it will still fill you up. You don't really care how healthy something is when you've been without it for so long. Like a cheeseburger, fame fills a need, and it tastes so good going down. It isn't until years later that you realize what it has done to your heart.

Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

A good meal, a good talk, a good fuck--what better way to pass the day?

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they're worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

Where older religions promised heaven, the church of yoga promises quicker, more practical, earthly gratification, in the form of better heart rates and well-toned arms.