Quotes about Behavior

He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.

You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over.

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

Our self-perception determines our behavior. If we think we're small, limited, inadequate creatures, then we tend to behave that way, and the energy we radiate reflects those thoughts no matter what we do. If we think we're magnificent creatures with an infinite abundance of love and power to give, then we tend to behave that way. Once again, the energy around us reflects our state of awareness.

If they treat us with fear, we are to see their behavior as a call for love.

It's like avoidance behavior in therapy—wanting to share the gossip but not wanting to deal with the real, more painful issues. Of course we want to avoid the pain. But by doing so, we inevitably cause more of it.

We're not aligned with the Holy Spirit until people can behave in any way they choose to, and our own inner peace isn't shaken. There

Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.

As a pastor, I recognize that in theological terms, narcissists want to be the center of attention, like a god, and have people worship them by paying attention to them, buying the products they promote, and emulating their behavior.

Simply, a complaint attacks the problem, whereas a criticism attacks the person.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.