Perhaps the secret of living a holy life is to avoid every thing which will displease God and grieve the Spirit, and to be strictly attentive to the means of grace.
I always tried to be the perfect little girl. Always tried to have the perfect little manners. Never wanted to displease my parents.
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
My parents have put in a lot of efforts for me. Whatever I am and wherever I am is because of them. I won't do anything to displease them.
Although at the time I didn't realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that might displease those around me. For years, whatever directive I may have issued ended with the phrase, 'If it's all right with you.' If I thought I'd done anything to make someone unhappy, I'd agonize.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
Helena Glabrus: [after she has selected the best gladiators to fight to the death] Do my choices displease you?
Batiatus: Oh no, Lady Helena. I tingle.
