If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life.
Please, please, PLEASE be yourself. If you catch yourself not, take a step back.
You cannot please everyone, and I think that what's important, ultimately, is to make sure you please yourself. If you start trying to please other people, you'll just go around in circles.
When I was first writing, my little prayers were, 'Please, please, please. Let something be published someday.' Then it went to, 'Please, please, please. Let somebody read this.'
Learning to love yourself is not going to happen overnight - the first step is trying to be kinder and more patient with yourself, and I understand that it takes time.
Everybody that listens to something hears it differently from their own perspective. And you can't please everyone. Don't even try. Please yourself first and then try to please those people around you that you feel know what you're doing.
Please, please, please, please, please...,", squeezing his eyes shut because it somehow made the words more pure.
You have to be kinder to yourself, because it's a part of being good.
When it comes to art you can't please everybody but if you please yourself then take pleasure in that.
You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.
You can have so many different demands; trying to please the fans, pleasing the manager, please yourself.
You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.
Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
You can't please everyone. You've got to please yourself, I guess.
Every one of us is more beloved than we can possibly understand or imagine. Let us therefore be kinder to one another and kinder to ourselves.
I think one thing I've learned over the years is just that you're not going to ever please everyone, and the most important person to please is yourself.