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«Our professed love of freedom is increasingly shown to be a sophistry that replaces wisdom and righteousness with self-gratification»
Author: Carl Henry | Keywords: gratification, professed, replaces, self-gratification, sophistry
«Instant gratification takes too long.»
Author: Carrie Fisher (Actress, Writer) | Keywords: gratification, instant gratification
«Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, ''Joy is not in things, it is in us.''»
Author: Joan Borysenko | Keywords: adage, gratification, joyful, stilling
«Instant gratification is not soon enough.»
Author: Meryl Streep | Keywords: gratification, instant gratification, soon enough
«My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.»
Author: Adrienne Rich | Keywords: alternation, ambivalence, blissful, edged, exquisite, gratification, guiltless, intolerance, monster, murderous, nerves, raw, resentment, selfishness, tenderness, The Suffering, tiny
«It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.»
Author: Aristotle (Philosopher, Physician, Scientist) | Keywords: gratification
«Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.»
Author: Helen Keller (Author, Educator) | About: Goals | Keywords: attained, constitutes, constituting, fidelities, fidelity, gratification, persons, self-gratification, worthy
«Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and heavenly effect, truly, if it eases us of what in youth was the sorest plague of life»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero (Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer) | About: Elderly, Life, Living, Pleasure, Youth | Keywords: arising, eases, gratification, sorest
«There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: gratification
«There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: capricious, Constitution of the, gratification, implant, implanting, implants, indicates
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