Quotes About Behavior

I think now that White's quest for the hawks was his final test of Gos: he was behaving like a fearful man who has finally won someone's love and, unsure whether that love can be trusted, decides it is safer to obsess about someone else.

it seems very extraordinary that the complex psychology of a human being can be taught with a stick.

Dad has what I think of as only child darkside syndrome; he does everything as if he is being watched.

For some people love is like a king they swear allegiance to. That kind of person has to be released from one bond before they can begin to forge another one. All very conventional behavior, but fiercely interior convention. I'm not trying to imply that such people are wise or that they impress me -- I'm one of them, and it's probably the most futile form of integrity going. But if it's a side dish to other forms of integrity, then it's all right.

The Danes, I've noticed, love an emoticon, especially to dilute the impact after saying something that could be construed as confrontational, critical or rude.

Christ Our shared Identity of Oneness. The Self that God created by the extension of His Spirit. Our spiritual Identity. Christ vision Spiritual sight; seeing beyond the body and the ego. Interpreting others behaviors as (1) an act of love or (2) a calling out for love. Seeing both as no reason for defense or attack, and every reason for extending love. The ability to mentally see beyond all worldly interference and see the light of holiness in everything.

If you actually want to have an impact on other people's feelings and behavior, there is absolutely nothing more powerful, paradoxically, than fully listening to and accepting how they feel, and letting them know it.

The sign orders flatly: COMMIT NO NUISANCE.

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.

Whether as a moral kink or a crooked twist given to the will, vice has often the appearance of a curvature for the soul.

There is no pool, however, which has not some dead leaves floating on its surface, no human soul upon which there do not settle habits that make it rigid against itself by making it rigid against others.

A man generally lives up to what is expected of him.

You teach a little by what you say. You teach most by what you are.

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

Courtesy "Doth not behave itself unseemly." Unselfishness "Seeketh not its own." Good temper "Is not provoked." Guilelessness "Taketh not account of evil." Sincerity "Rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth.

Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

Men who are ill-natured and quarrelsome when drunk are very worthy persons when sober. For drink in reality doth not reverse nature or create passions in men which did not exist in them before. It takes away the guard of reason and consequently forces us to produce those symptoms which many when sober have art enough to conceal.

A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.