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  • 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.

  • School typically doesn't prepare young people for real life - unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that's why so many students who succeed in school fail in life.

    Life   Real   School  
  • 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.

    Mean   Caring   Thinking  
    Source: www.elle.com
  • Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.

    Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.102, New World Library
  • I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could no longer see me as a failure.

    Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Buddha of Suburbia”, p.260, Faber & Faber
  • You can't worry about pleasing other people; you have to please yourself.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Don't conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.

  • 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 great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • 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.

    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

    "The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals".
  • To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

    Sir Walter Scott (1826). “The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Etc”, p.82
  • When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation.

  • Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

    Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr
  • A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against him.

  • Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.

  • To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.100
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