{"id":504,"date":"2008-05-26T21:21:54","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T01:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/05\/26\/pleasing-yourself\/"},"modified":"2008-05-26T21:21:54","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T01:21:54","slug":"pleasing-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Pleasing Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happiness is not found in pleasing others at the expense of self.\u00c2\u00a0 It is not doing what others think you should do.\u00c2\u00a0 Happiness comes when you do what pleases you for the sake of pleasing yourself.\u00c2\u00a0 Think about this for a moment:\u00c2\u00a0 No one could quibble that Mother Teresa was one of the most altruistic people of the 20th century.\u00c2\u00a0 She didn&#8217;t <em>have <\/em>to do what she was doing.\u00c2\u00a0 She did it because it pleased her.\u00c2\u00a0 From my observation, she found profound personal pleasure in caring for others and serving God.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Dan Baker, PhD, and Cathy Greenberg, PhD, <em>What Happy Women Know, <\/em>p. 84<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happiness is not found in pleasing others at the expense of self.\u00c2\u00a0 It is not doing what others think you should do.\u00c2\u00a0 Happiness comes when you do what pleases you for the sake of pleasing yourself.\u00c2\u00a0 Think about this for a moment:\u00c2\u00a0 No one could quibble that Mother Teresa was one of the most altruistic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}