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“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”

Thinking Mind Self Happiness Desire Wonder Gratitude Satisfaction Peaceful Temporary Joyful Gratification Hooked

Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“Many years spent listening to the tribulations of man have persuaded me that the satisfaction of all desires is completely counterproductive to happiness. Instant and unrestrained gratification is the shortest and most direct route to unhappiness.”

Men Years Desire Listening Direct Satisfaction Instant Unhappiness Routes Gratification Tribulation Counterproductive

Author:James E. Faust

“When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification.”

Humans Light Desire Human Beings Simple Cutting Creatures Shoes Size Consumers Heat Warmth Shelter Gratification Gucci

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“We demand to be coaxed and comforted, to be encouraged and gratified, so we choose a teacher who will give us what we crave for. We do not search out reality, but go after gratification and sensation.”

Giving Reality Desire Teacher Demand Sensations Crave Gratification Be Encouraged

Book:Commentaries on Living 2

Source: Commentaries on Living 2

“The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the saying goes, falling for the swindle; if it guarantees them even the most fleeting gratification they desire a deception which is nonetheless transparent to them. They force their eyes shut and voice approval, in a kind of self-loathing, for what is meted out to them, knowing fully the purpose for which it is manufactured. Without admitting it they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all.”

Source: The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture

“What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a language of purpose is to return to first principles and to be able to answer, in plain English, the plain questions of Why? Why should we chip in to help someone else? Why should we defer gratification? Why should we care about the long term? Why should we trust anyone who seems to be limiting our ability to do what we want?”

Want Should Firsts Mean Long Doe Helping Seems Care Able Desire Purpose Speak Language Term Ability Answers Principles Return Intention Long Term Chips Gratification Short Life Plain English

Author:Eric Liu

“The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.”

Knows Desire Gratification

Author:Pliny the Elder

“A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.”

Ifs Men World Mind Desire Next Enjoy This World Blessing Arise Contentment Gratification Present Life Greatest Blessings

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Spectator. The Guardian. The Lover. The present state of the war, and the necessity of augmentation, considered. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Freeholder

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Spectator. The Guardian. The Lover. The present state of the war, and the necessity of augmentation, considered. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-examiner. The Freeholder

“Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle.”

Desire Wonder Bears Miracle Surprise Curiosity Cease Length Gratification Novelty Stimulants Languish

Author:Washington Irving

“Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.”

Love Home Desire Love Is Mistake Gratification Frantic

Author:Vernon Howard

“Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.”

People Needs Kind Desire Culture Millions Ego Gratification Clash

Author:Taylor Hackford

“As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.”

Men Running Desire Ability Path Function Formulas Efficiency Maximum Gratification

Book:Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.”

Source: The Karamazov Brothers

“This is the great truth life has to teach us ... that gratification of our individual desires and expression of our personal preferences without consideration for their effect upon others brings in the end nothing but ruin and devastation.”

Ends Desire Individual Teach Effects Expression Ruins Consideration Truth Of Life Preference Gratification Devastation Personal Preferences

Author:Hortense Odlum