Hedonic Treadmill Quotes

“There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.”
― Millard Fuller

“A true saying it is, ‘Desire hath no rest;‘ is infinite in itself, endless; and as one calls it, a perpetual rack, or horse-mill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.”
― Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy: What It Is, With All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics, and Several Cures of It. in Three Partitions; With Their ... Medically, Historically Opened and Cut Up

“The [hedonic] treadmill does not have to be a trap. You can’t get off it, but once you realize how it works, you can stop being its slave”
― Scott Galloway, The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security