"I do not wish to please him;..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.”
“Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.”
“Contemporary American psychiatristIt is a happy talent to know how to play.”
More on Relationships
“Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.”
“Don't confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.”
“Forgive but don’t forget, girl keep your head up. And when he tells you you ain’t nothing, don’t believe him. And if he can’t learn to love you, you should leave him.”
More on Desire
“When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless, and dreams were space without measure.”
“A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.”
“The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.”