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“Slavery of senses is the oldest form of slavery, and once we break this slavery, we'll conquer all inhumanity.”

Prejudice Humanism Senses Pearls Of Wisdom Evolutionary Psychology Inhumanity Self Regulation Pleasures Self Gratification

Book:When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Amantes Assemble Sonnet 80 Why do we take breath, Is it to stay alive! Why do we eat bread, Is it to stay alive! Why do we drink water, Is it to stay alive! Why do we take naps, Is it to stay alive! Why do we look to mate, Is it to stay alive! Why do we have me time, Is it to stay alive! These just keep the body alive, nothing else. The mind is alive when it lives beyond the self.”

Kindness Mindfulness Pearls Of Wisdom Service Of Humanity Selflessness Humanitarian Poetry Book Of Poems Life Poetry Self Gratification Poems Of Life

Book:Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Let us not subside into a single mandatory way of thinking or feeling, immersed by a spirit of self-gratification. But let’s dig into the fresh energy of new boundaries and at the same time pick the blossoms of poetry welling up along the path of our life, and enjoy the innocence of the little wonders of every day. ("A Thousand times touched." )”

Thinking Poetry Wonder Boundaries Innocence Feeling Blossoms Self Gratification Subside Single Mandatory

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“Self-gratification to the point of sustaining oneself is healthy, but beyond that, it's not only unhealthy, but downright inhuman.”

Luxury Pearls Of Wisdom Healthy Living Consumerism Shopaholic Pleasures Luxury Life Style Self Gratification

Book:When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“The moral climate of pathological self-absorption – hedonistic egotism – defines contemporary society.”

Identity American Culture Self Image Self Absorbed Egocentric Hedonism Self Absorption Self Gratification Egotistical Life

Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“For a soldier of ascension there is no room for self-gratification, beyond the bare necessities of sustenance.”

Service Of Humanity Altruism Humanitarianism Social Work Selfless Service Social Worker Social Reformer Sacrifice For Others Self Gratification Humanitarian Mission

Book:Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society

Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society

“Even now, hard against the End of Time, when the death rattle of our species has become audible even to the thick-eared, they still grasp for a little more of the things we have always desired - coin, power, knowledge, gratification.”

Greed Apathy Warhammer 40k Warhammer 40000 Self Gratification Extinction Of Humanity Blind To Reality Blind To Truth

Book:The Emperor's Legion

Source: The Emperor's Legion

“Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits. An association of music and math has, in fact, long been noted. Creating and performing music promotes self-expression and provides self-gratification while giving pleasure to others. In medicine, increasing published reports demonstrate that music has a healing effect on patients. For all these reasons, it deserves strong support in our educational system, along with the other arts, the sciences, and athletics.”

“When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, exploring and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called “licking the earth.”

“Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.”

Self Delay Inability Gratification Immaturity Self Gratification

Author:Mike Murdock

“Let's be clear about what people never say about Playboy on television. It was nothing more than an instrument for onanism. That's what it was. And the Internet co-opted that industry of self- gratification. There is no necessity for lonely men or teenagers to use Playboy. It turns out no one bought that magazine for the articles ever; it was used for only one thing.”

People Men Self Use Used Turns Clear One Thing Television Industry Internet Lonely Instruments Magazines Teenager Articles Gratification Playboy Lonely Man Self Gratification

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.”

Want Needs Self Clear Circles Aspiration Materialism Pits Gratification Self Gratification

Author:Mario Cuomo

“Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse wisely directed.”

Mean Self Love Is Doubt Sacrifice Impulse No Doubt Gratification True Love Is Thoughtfulness Self Gratification

Book:Speech in Season

Source: Speech in Season

“For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.”

People Trying Self Something New Gratification Backseat Self Gratification

Author:Ariel Pink

“Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.”

Self Love Is Moral Virtue Duty Self Love Sole Gratification Violation Propensity Antagonist Moral Duty Self Gratification

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”

Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

“He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance.”

Self Inspiration Joy Motivation Order Fall Expression Fellows Vanity Servant Arrogance Disappointed Pits Gratification Self Expression Self Gratification

Book:Moshe Safdie: Volume 1

Source: Moshe Safdie: Volume 1

“If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the effect and attendant of it. But to seek after affection directly and chiefly; to have the heart principally set upon that; is to place it in the room of God and his glory. If it be sought, that others may take notice of it, and admire us for our spirituality and forwardness in religion, it is then damnable pride; if for the sake of feeling the pleasure of being affected, it is then idolatry and self-gratification.”

Source: David Brainerd: his life and diary

“In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.”

Self Seems Earth Fantasy Exercise Pure Selfish Selfishness Gratification Retrospect Licking Pascal Self Gratification

Book:A twentieth century testimony

Source: A twentieth century testimony

“If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of the green frog skin, by people who are mindful of their own self, forgetting about the wants of others.”

People Ifs Want Should Self Earth Desire Forget Pleasure Skins Green Greed Lust Destroyed Gratification Frogs Self Gratification

Author:John Fire Lame Deer

“Among the few I have indicated, is there no dynamic man of action, the rebel who will help determine the aspect of the collective expression of tomorrow? Ponder this question and know that to make beautiful creations for the sake of their aesthetic value will have no social significance tomorrow, will be nonsensical self-gratification. Every era contains the conditions for providing a rebel.”

“Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.”

Knows Men Self Grief Selfish Cosmic Gratification Unreality Self Gratification

Author:Walter Russell

“... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. Sympathy for the afflicted makes a reality of the affliction by its recognition as an infliction, while sorrow for the loss of anything, or for the »unfortunate« condition of anybody, is forgetful of the beauty and abundance of all-giving God and Nature. The Mind of God knows but one unchanging emotion - ECSTASY - the ecstasy of Love - the ecstasy which has its beginnings in an inner joyousness of one who is far on the road to the discovery of his immortal Self.”

“Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters-self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.”

Self Matter Faces Common Pride Seeking Pity Selfishness Fulfillment Worldly Gratification Conceit Self Pity Self Fulfillment Self Gratification Selfishness And Pride

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way.”

Way Self Young Position Adults Paint Young Adult Seeking Instant Gratification Self Centered Instant Gratification Position Of Power Self Gratification Older Adults

Author:Raymond Arroyo