Success… Is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it.
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
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As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work.
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I think it was Laurence Olivier who said that one of the things you have to accept in art is that when you put your heart into doing something there will be people who don't like it for really good reasons, really smart people who don't like what you've done for very valid reasons. That is hard to accept, that there are really valid reasons for not liking anything. The astonishing thing is that there haven't been many valid reasons for anyone not to like this movie.
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Ah! Freedom is a noble thing! Freedom makes man to have liking:...
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.
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The perfect way is without difficulty, for it avoids picking and choosing. Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood. Be not concerned with right or wrong, for the conflict between right and wrong is the sickness of the mind.
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If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
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I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
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There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
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No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.
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When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the b...
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It is only the benevolent man who is capable of liking or disliking other men.
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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
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I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.
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Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
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If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not to alter me.
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2 Timothy 4:3:
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
(NIV)
For the time is coming when [people] will not tolerate (endure) sound and wholesome instruction, but, having ears itching [for something pleasing and gratifying], they will gather to themselves one teacher after another to a considerable number, chosen to satisfy their own liking and to foster the errors they hold
(AMP)
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
(KJV)
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Each man is led by his own liking.
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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
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Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
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It is not doing the things we like to do, But liking the things we have to do That makes life blessed.
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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
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