#gratification

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. ↗

— Mark Strand

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The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you - and the more gratification you will fell when you finally do it. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#gratification #resistance #art

In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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