It will be most pleasing to O[ur] L[ord] if you husband your strength in order to serve Him better.
There are some women who are flirts upon principle; they consider it their duty to make themselves as pleasing as possible to every one.
An inswinger - that gets an lbw or bowled - after a few outswingers is always very pleasing.
If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.
There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.
What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.
I don't believe that raising my voice in song is going to be pleasing to a God who is sitting upstairs somewhere, waiting to be pleased.
People in my state, Kerala, have started playing hockey, which is very pleasing to see.
When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.
You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform.
Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.
No matter what one looks at and finds temporarily pleasing, it can never be as beautiful as just a tree, really.
The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside
Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.
The pleasing thing is being able to be in an environment where, even though I'm a rookie, everyone wants to help you out.
In buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast.
Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody.
The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the depth and entertainment comes value.
We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don’t waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.
This is the kind of world I was born in, one in which I had only one reason for existence: pleasing others.
Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me.
There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so harmonious - in the abstract, anyway.
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart.
In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.
She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.
I'm not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs.
I'm a pleaser, but it's not a good thing because you forget about pleasing yourself at the end of the day.
Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.
The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.
I found it quite pleasing to be alone from a very young age. The piano became my source of release.
My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.
I love a nice cooking show. It's as aesthetically pleasing as any other thing that tempts the senses, I suppose.
Now for the first time, you can choose yourself. You can be responsible for what you do and how you do it. You have to do the hard work of finding and pleasing an audience.
For the High Achievers, Studying Gave Them The Pleasing, Absorbing Challenge of Flow Percent of the Hours They Spent as It.
Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who is mean and irascible.
Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift is given.
There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.
No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.
In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.
Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.
A relationship based on people-pleasing is unbalanced and an unnecessary sacrifice of integrity, that will eventually break down.
Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.
Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.
The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.
Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.
Trying to please others before pleasing God is inverting the first and second great commandments.
Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed,
Less pleasing when possest;
The tear forgot as soon as shed,
The sunshine of the breast.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.
That's all this job is, Daine," she explained. "Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.
The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.
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