Quotes About Disposition

Always stick to your likings - there are profound reasons for them

Essentially all religions include decisive truths and mediators and miracles, but the disposition of these elements, the play of their proportions, can vary according to the conditions of the revelation and of the human receptacles of the revelation.

Our society has largely forgotten the importance of bodily posture for alertness, for digestion, and most importantly for one's psychophysical disposition. Zazen reminds the body, as well as the mind, of the beneficial effects of good posture. Moreover, zazen increases physical as well as mental flexibility, and in general it attunes our minds to the needs of the body, allowing the body to mindfully retune itself.

Our friend was slightly nervous; that went with his character as a student of fine prose, went with the artist's general disposition to vibrate

It was in her disposition at all times to lose faith in the reality of absent things; she could summon back her faith, in case of need, with with an effort, but the effort was often painful even when the reality had been pleasant. The past was apt to look dead and its revival rather to show the livid light of a judgement-day.

He had seen the follies of the romantic disposition, but there seemed somehow no follies in theirs – nothing, one was obliged to recognise, but innocent pleasures, pleasures without penalties.

It was more romantic to say nothing, and, drinking deep, in secret, of romance, she was as little disposed to ask . . . advice as she would have been to close that rare volume forever.

I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.

Some are born jerks" she said, "some have jerkhood thrust upon them, and some mature into rich and vibrant jerks. You are all three.

Entente hostility toward Soviet Russia, in other words, no more caused Bolshevik Western antagonism than Entente accommodation would have caused a friendly, hands-off Bolshevik disposition.

What one thinks of any region, while traveling through, is the result of at least three things: what one knows, what one imagines, and how one is disposed [Barry Lopez].

Frankly we did our best to prevent such a testamentary disposition, and pointed out certain contingencies that might leave her daughter either penniless or not so free as she should be to act regarding a matrimonial alliance.

It is a curious characteristic of the non-defensive disposition that it is like a honey-jar to flies. Nothing is brought to it and much is taken away.

None on the Court be well disposed to the hearing of reason,I'm afraid. They are gripped with fear for their own reputations.

People like what they like, and that's the great and terrible thing.

I've found that obedience to God creates quiet fulfillment in the present. There is a spiritual satisfaction that comes even in the midst of our trials. It is a demeanor that may not be as "showy" as gleeful happiness, but it is much less subject to moods and makes for much more permanent a disposition.

It is a way I have of driving off the spleen

But indeed, nature herself seemed to have been his vintner, and at his birth charged him so thoroughly with an irritable, brandy-like disposition, that all subsequent potations were needless.

year-old girl. It was more than a habit, for a habit could be broken. This was a deep disposition, the outline experience had stencilled on character. It was not

The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.

I'm not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

Each character you play has its own set of characteristics, for want of a better word.