{"quotes":[{"text":"The art of pleasing is the art of deception.","author":"Luc de Clapiers","tags":["deception","pleasing "],"id":28900,"author_id":"Luc+de+Clapiers"},{"text":"To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.","author":"Walter Scott","tags":["light","fair","pleasing "],"id":33107,"author_id":"Walter+Scott"},{"text":"In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you do not like me so,To hell, my love, with you.","author":"Dorothy Parker","tags":["adaptation","change","character","empowerment","love","men","nature","pleasing","self-discovery","self-esteem","self-respect","truthfulness","wisdom","women","youth"],"id":41592,"author_id":"Dorothy+Parker"},{"text":"I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with the blind worship of the ignoble past, with the idea that all the great and good are dead, that the living are totally depraved, that all pleasures are sins, that sighs and groans are alone pleasing to God, that thought is dangerous, that intellectual courage is a crime, that cowardice is a virtue, that a certain belief is necessary to secure salvation, that to carry a cross in this world will give us a palm in the next, and that we must allow some priest to be the pilot of our souls.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["belief","blind","country","courage","cowardice","crime","cross","dead","depraved","destroy","fear","free","good","great","groan","ignoble","ignorance","intellect","living","past","people","pilot","pleasing","pleasure","prejudice","priest","salvation","sigh","sin","thought","virtue","want","worship"],"id":51438,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.","author":"Jim Carrey","tags":["2014","7-7","77","acceptance","actor","actors","address","allow","be-you","be-yourself","commencement-address","commencement-speech","famous-people","glory","graduate","graduation","hide","hiding","inspirational","inspiring","jim-carey","jim-carrey","light","maharishi","maharishi-university","mum","pleaser","pleasing","pleasing-others","risk","shine","shine-bright","shine-on","shine-your-light"],"id":104337,"author_id":"Jim+Carrey"},{"text":"You can never please people enough. But you can only be yourself.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["christian-living","inspirational","people","pleasing","self-love","self-respect","yourself"],"id":132102,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Do only work that matters, and you will end up pleasing those who are important enough to care about it.","author":"Jeffrey Fry","tags":["care","do-only","end-up","enough","important","matters","pleasing","work"],"id":212741,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Fry"},{"text":"Every one of us will have situations in life where we must choose between pleasing people and our calling.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["calling","choose","life","money","people","pleasing","prosperity","riches","situations","wealth","will"],"id":267742,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"You are unshakable, the Lord is your rock, and redeemer, when the words of your mouth and the meditation of your heart are pleasing before Him. Psalm 9:14.","author":"Felix Wantang","tags":["heart","lord","meditation","mouth","pleasing","redeemer","unshakable","words"],"id":340946,"author_id":"Felix+Wantang"},{"text":"So enjoy the exhilaration when it comes. Take the ride to the heights when you get the opportunity. But don't get hooked on the thrill of the moment. Take charge of your emotions. And when it comes time to do the right thing, don't let your feelings lead you to compromise. That is the way to live a happier, more successful life and one that is more pleasing to God.","author":"James C. Dobson","tags":["charge","comes","do","emotions","feelings","god","life","live","opporunity","pleasing","right","successful","thing","time"],"id":348796,"author_id":"James+C.+Dobson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}