#pleas

I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#being #everyone #girl #good #good girl

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#joy #life #life is a #pleasure #slavery

Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart. ↗

— Jane Grey

#bowels #eyes #gift #given #god

Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days. ↗

— Jane Grey

#been #days #death #god #hasten

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me. ↗

— Zane Grey

#i #inspires #me #pleasure #proofs

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. ↗

— G. I. Gurdjieff

#give #his #like #man #pleasures

She's you, without your conscience, or your feelings. She's you without your humanity." "You're saying she's a mood swing?" He shrugged. "Or maybe you're her mood swing." "Don't even joke about that. ↗

— Derek Landy

#mood-swing #skulduggery-pleasant #death

When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#develop #journey #just #life #part

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#i #memoir #more #pleasant #than

Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure. ↗

— Rex Harrison

#thief #tomorrow