I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.
I think it's the strange irony that we make all these life choices before we're 40, because really we shouldn't make any until we're 40. It almost feels like you get a software upgrade and you start to experience life in such a different way, because you just don't suffer fools, you go straight for what means something and what feels good, and you stop caring about pleasing other people.
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.
As a man, I've learned that there is nothing easier in married life than pleasing your wife with your cooking.
The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious
Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.
My biggest advice for girls - and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger - is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.
I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself.
Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.
Trying to please others before pleasing God is inverting the first and second great commandments.
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
I want before God that everything, every thought, attitude, action, motive, desire in my heart be pleasing to Him. I ask Him, 'Keep the spotlight of your Spirit on me so there would be nothing impure or unholy in my life. ' That's been my prayer for 50 years.
There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.
Among other pleasing errors of young minds is the opinion of their own importance. He that has not yet remarked, how little attention his contemporaries can spare from themselves, conceives all eyes turned upon himself, and imagines everyone that approaches him to be an enemy or a follower, an admirer or a spy.
Another sex worker and writer I respect put it this way: she said that as a writer, you're not about pleasing people, and as a sex worker it's all about pleasing people. It's all about creating this fantasy. I still feel like as a writer you actually do have put on a show. You can't just hand over your notes. And there is a degree to which you are appealing to the reader's vanity, whether you tell yourself you're doing that or not.
To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.
There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
Charm is simply the art of being pleasing.
I think it's really important to follow your intuition and gut, and try not to do things just for the sake of pleasing other people.
Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.