Please all and you will soon please none. Aesop
Category Archives: PEOPLE PLEASING
popularity is for dolls. a hero cannot be popular
“Just because I cut the heads off dolls doesn’t mean I hate babies, I just hate dolls.”
Alice Cooper – 2003
If yuh nah get wing, nah ah guh a bird sport.
If you feel that you do not belong somewhere you should not go there. Also, if you are unable to do something, you should not do it.
http://www.guyana.org/proverbs.html
“Like a parakeet, that says what he knows but doesn’t know what he says”
If you want a kitten, start out by asking for a horse.
Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it.
– Winifred Carriere
People believe it because people are stupid. Apparently, that’s adequate now.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz
One Variation on People Pleasing
Merging. One to please someone is to be like them. Here you aren’t just trying to be what another person wants you to be, you are trying to be a copy of them. If they are upset by something, you should be, too. If they are happy, you should be happy. The way to please them is to merge with them. If you have this variation, you are likely to merge with one special person–a parent, a sibling, a lover, a spouse. Sometimes both people have this pattern; they are merged with each other. There are a number of ways to merge: (1) Searching inside to find the part of you that feels like the other person,. (2) Assuming you feel the same as they do. (3) Distorting what you feel to make it the same. When the two people actually feel differently, this can be confusing.
There just isn`t any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying. –
Robert Mitchum
“People tend to consider being vulnerable a bad thing. It’s not. Vulnerability reminds us that we’re human. It keeps us open to giving and receiving love. Without at least a little, we can become someone living n a prison of our own making, where the walls are so thick that no one can get in or out.”
― Jodee Blanco, Please Stop Laughing at Me… One Woman’s Inspirational Story
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”
― Malcolm Muggeridge
When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil’s walking parody On all four-footed things.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.
Margaret Mitchell (1900 – 1949)
“Reputation is what others think of us; character is what we know of us. When you spend a lot of energy trying to repair a few moments of time that destroyed the view others once had of you, or a judgement someone made of you, true or not, then you must ask yourself, why take on the problem when it is really them?”
― Tambré Bryant – Strategic Intervention Life Coach
“The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.” ― C. JoyBell C.
“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” ― Winston Churchill
“If a drop of that wine would drip into the Nile
The crocodile would be drunken for hundred years by its smell
If the antelope in the dessert would drink a drop of it
It would become a roaring lion and wouldn’t think about the leopard”
― Rūdakī
The singing birds among the trees sing not the public ear to please.
Scotland: "Maybes are nay aye honey bees.”
MAKE THYSELF HONEY AND THE FLIES WILL EAT THEE.
Moral emblems, with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations
On ne saurait contenter tout le monde et son pere = One cannot please all the world and his wife.
"French and English idioms and proverbs : with critical and historical notes"
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Epictetus
Death is a black camel which kneels at every man’s gate. (Turkish). The camel kneels to receive its burden. Here death is represented as a camel that is sure at some time to stop before every man’s door to receive and bear away his body for burial.
"Curiosities in Proverbs: A Collection of Unusual Adages, Maxims, Aphorisms, Phrases and Other …"
The poison of a scorpion is in his tail; the poison of a fly is in his head; the poison of a serpent is in his fang; the poison of a bad man is in his whole body. (Sanskrit).
The applause of the people is a blast of air.
"Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages: Classified Subjectively and Arranged Alphabetically"
Fame is but the breath of the people and that often unwholesome.
foto – burra on a bello wire 2010
There are more things to alarm than to injure us; and we are more often afflicted by fancy than by fact. Seneca
If we do not flatter ourselves the flattery of other people would not harm us.— (La Rochefoucauld)
foto – bilambil from the cottage 2008
THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY 