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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
I appreciate film and stuff that's visually pleasing.
The pleasing punishment that women bear.
I was constantly comparing myself to others in my workplace, others in life, others on social media, and I was so focused on others that I fell out of touch with myself. — © Jenna Johnson
I was constantly comparing myself to others in my workplace, others in life, others on social media, and I was so focused on others that I fell out of touch with myself.
Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
People pleasing doesn't allow you to receive.
Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be met with in such an indolent happiness, such an indifference to mankind, as that in which the stoics placed their wisdom. As love is the most delightful passion, pity is nothing else but love softened by a degree of sorrow: In short, it is a kind of pleasing anguish, anguish as well as generous sympathy, that knits mankind together, and blends them in the same common lot.
Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
The photographer sees the world as a child sees the bits of glass in a kaleidoscope. If he has a camera with which he can secure these ever-changing combinations, he is then able to look on them again and again, and he has the further pleasure of pleasing others with the sight of things which he, with perhaps unusual opportunities, was able to see, which his friends would otherwise not ever be able to.
In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.
Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.
A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain. — © Edmund Spenser
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
If she is pleasing to one man, a girl is taken care of.
The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear
Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
I will always come with something that's aesthetically pleasing.
Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering.
Compliant children are very easily led when they are young, because they thrive on approval and pleasing adults. They are just aseasily led in their teen years, because they still seek the same two things: approval and the pleasing their peers. Strong-willed children are never easily led by anybody--not by you, but also not by their peers. So celebrate your child's strength of will throughout the early years...and know that the independent thinking you are fostering will serve him well in the critical years to come.
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
You're able to love others, to give to others, and do for others by giving and doing for yourself first.
A person who respects others is respected by others in return. Those who treat others with compassion and concern are protected and supported by others. Our environment is essentially a reflection of ourselves
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.
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.
Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether, though it is very largely, a manifestation of vanity. But one cannot aim to be pleasing to women any more than one can aim to have taste, or beauty of expression, or happiness; for these things are not specific aims which one may learn to attain; they are descriptions of the adequacy of one's living. To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.
To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.
A pleasing face is no small advantage.
Pleasing ware is half sold.
To me, there are saints every day. They stand up and help others and live for others and do things for others.
As an actor, it's so, so rewarding and so pleasing to not be reprimanded.
...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!
The "biggest" poems I ever made are based on the psychological principal of the "Johari Window:" what the self freely shares with others; what the self hides from others; what others hide from the self; and what is unknown to the self and others.
How can you worry about pleasing people [critics] and what they're going to think? How can you do anything creative if the whole thing is motivated by trying to please somebody else? To me, the whole idea of what I thought art, or music, or anything creative was about pleasing yourself and hoping that whatever you're creating will reach someone else who'll see it on that level. To worry about someone picking it apart and discussing it element for element, and trying to knock you down or weaken it in any way doesn't amount to anything but a waste of paper.
I'm passionate about pleasing people.
Planets' orbits are elliptical. It's a very pleasing shape.
The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.
Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness. — © Rajneesh
Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness.
A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
Charm is simply the art of being pleasing.
If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself
Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.
Don't let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative.
Successful men are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by the desire for pleasing methods and are inclined to be satisfied with such results as can be obtained by doing things they like to do. The common denominator of success - the secret of every man who has ever been successful - lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do.
To give worthy praise to the Lord's mercy, we unite ourselves with Your Immaculate Mother, for then our hymn will be more pleasing to You, because She is chosen from among men and angels. Through Her, as through a pure crystal, Your mercy was passed on to us. Through Her, man became pleasing to God; Through Her, streams of grace flowed down upon us.
She didn't like to be talked about. Equally, she didn't like not to be talked about, when the high-minded chatter rushed on as though she was not there. There was no pleasing her, in fact. She had the grace, even at eleven, to know there was no pleasing her. She thought a lot, analytically, about other people's feelings, and had only just begun to realize that this was not usual, and not reciprocated.
Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.
Art must not stop at the level of pleasing eyes. — © Li Shan
Art must not stop at the level of pleasing eyes.
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.
I just rearrange words into a pleasing order for money.
And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
A pleasing countenance is no light advantage.
The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true
It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!
Every person with whom you interact is a part of the person you are becoming. Not a single interaction with a single person is left out of the process of your becoming. Many assume that only pleasing relationships have value, but that is not the case. Your awareness of an unwanted situation evokes from you a clear Vibrational request for something different. And so, even those uncomfortable interactions with others form the Vibrational basis of your expansion.
We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.
Love is a pleasing but a various clime.
It is a challenge trying not to give in to pleasing other people.
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