Quotes About Gratification

Gratification kills desire. And constant gratification kills it permanently

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.

Self-denial in the pursuit of purpose generates true pleasure while self-indulgence in the pursuit of pleasure generates true misery.

The narcissistic gratifications involved in psychoanalytic training, such as professional advancement, the unconscious misuse of the therapeutic relationship as an expression of power, basking in patients' idealizations, and the facilitation of vicarious living through patients may unfortunately remain unrecognized for many years. The

training analysts that utilizes the exacerbation of idealization processes inherent in psychoanalytic training to consolidate its power and the related narcissistic gratification by exercising control over a small social organization.

Some may say that by being civil to each other we stifled our self-expression. But we can also say that we chose to express one part of ourselves rather than another. Although it may appear that we give up self-expression when we exercise it, in truth restraint can be as much an expression of our Selves as is unfettered behavior. Yes, practicing civility may limit our immediate gratification. That's why we are tempted to be rude (p.24).

A beer doesn't have to be difficult to acquire, but damned if that doesn't make everything taste better.

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future selves as we focus on gaining short-term pleasure at the cost of long-term benefits.

He had no use for sensual gratification, unless that gratification consisted of pure, incorporeal odors.

I hope you'll understand if I don't kiss you good night on the first date. I just don't want a reputation as that kind of guy. I mean, if you get the milk for free, you won't buy the cow, and then I won't have my steaks. I love steak, especially barbequed. Let

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful," said West, who was talking about sex, not vitamins.) Second,

If you suffer for something that gives delight, soon the suffering itself can give joy.

Let's go back to the question of what people want and consider an answer that, whatever else one might say about it, is at least pretty clear. It's pleasure. The Greek term for pleasure is h?don?, which is why those who argue for the centrality of pleasure are called hedonists.

The constant pursuit of material possessions/money status or sexual relationships, and so on, can be problematic.

The nightmare is the ultimate - and therefore impossible - wish fulfilment that tries to take gratification to the point of no return

Therefore the goal of the partial drive is not the other person, the goal is to achieve a particular form of gratification. In this respect, the other person is actually superfluous as a subject and can sometimes even be an obstacle to pleasure. He or she serves as an object—and actually as a partial object—a means of achieving a goal.

everything about this moment is so sharp and lovely, I do something completely out of character and just let myself have it.

Postmodernism: The cultural condition marked by the absolute gratification of human desires and the absolute neglect of human needs.

He burns half of it in the fire, and he roasts meat on that half. He eats the roast and is satisfied. Indeed, he warms himself and says, “Ah! I am warm; I see the fire.”