#behavior

It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#humor #humor

General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be. ↗

— Jane Austen

#friendship

You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat. One doesn’t behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#manners #change

The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways–and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#behavior #change #conversation #day #fear

People who tell untruths are easily deceived because they have placed their energy in that negative vibration location and are now a match for that behavior. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#deceived #energy #golden-rule #honor #inspiration

Perhaps we can recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them. ↗

— Patti Digh

#change #patterns #pay-attention #change

It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see. ↗

— Josef Albers

#art #because #behavior #behind #concerned

I hope that there are no persons that would want to think ill of me in any direction or any behavior. ↗

— Diahann Carroll

#behavior #direction #hope #i #i hope that

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface. ↗

— James Bryant Conant

#appears #behavior #below #correct #corrupt

Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is. ↗

— Marc Morial

#behavior #changing #gun #industry #money