If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life.
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First of all, you need to love yourself, 'cause that's the only way you're going to get by and be O.K. as an individual. But it's important to make other people feel loved because you never know what they're going through.
Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.
I think one thing I've learned over the years is just that you're not going to ever please everyone, and the most important person to please is yourself.
Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can't wait for a feeling to motivate you.
I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.
You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end.
You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.
You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss.
You can't live your life trying to please people. You be courteous and you be respectful, but you've got to do things in the way that you want to do them.
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
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