I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.
I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound.
I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.
Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.
Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.
Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.
It is a challenge trying not to give in to pleasing other people.