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"Instant gratification is not soon enough." »Meryl Streep
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"Instant gratification takes too long." »Carrie Fisher
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"It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it." »Aristotle
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"Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them." »Ellis Peters
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"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." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self-gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations." »I Ching
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"It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love." »Sir Arthur Helps
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"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." »Helen Keller
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"Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." »Helen Keller
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"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." »Fyodor Dostoevsky
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