Quotes About Gratification

I never want to be that guy at a dinner table saying, 'I wish I could have dessert.' I actually went through a stage when I would order dessert first.

Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli

Thus narcissism is an obsession with "what this person, that event means to me." This question about the personal relevance of other people and outside acts is posed so repetitively that a clear perception of those persons and events in themselves is obscured. This absorption in self, oddly enough, prevents gratification of self needs; it makes the person at the moment of attaining an end or connecting with another person feel that "this isn't what I wanted.

My life didn?t need to be on the line for me to enjoy dessert.

You flatter me shamelessly. I like it. Good.

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.

It is vital that we recognize and tend to our unmet needs, because if we don't take the time to care for them we will constantly find ourselves headed down paths that lead us away from our goals rather than toward what we desire. When we don't deal with the unfulfilled needs inside us, they continue to drive us to act impulsively, to forsake our long-term vision in favor of short-term gratification. Then our unfulfilled needs, not our vision, drive our behaviors.

The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.

In love as as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.

The nuisance of her presence outweighs the gratification to be derived from tormenting her

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.

Property, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

There was something so final about the man's manner that Roland was compelled to accept the dismissal, but it deeply offended him, and the unreasonable anger opened the door for evil thoughts; and evil thoughts—having a cursed and powerful vitality—immediately began to take form and to make plans for their active gratification.

instantly peeled back the wrapper and bit off half the granola bar

To get any win, especially against a Welsh side, is very satisfying.

My gratification in working comes from the preparation and the building of the character.

I'm a hedonist when it comes to culinary delights.

A non-fussy home delivery of chicken biryani at 3 A.M., absolutely makes my day.

After I was done, I sighed and leaned back, feeling decadent and spent. Pure bliss. Books were a lot less messy than orgasms.

The feeling a writer gets when the last word is typed is almost as good as an orgasm.

But if she could give the same test to humanity as a whole, Sandra thought, the outcome would be very much in doubt. Subject is confused and often self-destructive. Subject pursues short-term gratification at the expense of his own well-being.

They come to accept things that are made cheaply and quickly. The idea that they might have to expend much effort to get what they want has been eroded by the proliferation of devices that do so much of the work for them, fostering the idea that they deserve all of this—that it is their inherent right to have and to consume what they want.

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