#behavior

I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#religion #change

The fact that my circumstances had changed drastically but my behavior hadn't was beginning to wear on me. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#change #circumstances #change

Classifying depression as an illness serves the psychiatric community and pharmaceutical corporations well; it also soothes the frightened, guilty, indifferent, busy, sadistic, and unschooled. To understand depression as a call for life-changes is not profitable. Stagnation is not a medical term. The 17.5 million Americans diagnosed as suffering a major depression in 1997 were mostly damned. (Psychobiological examinations confuse cause and symptom.) Deficient serotonergic functioning, ventral prefrontal cerebral cortex, dis-inhibition of impulsive-aggressive behavior, blah blah blah: the medical lexicon boils emotion from human being. Go take a drug, the doctor says. Pain is a biochemical phenomenon. Erase all memory. ↗

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#biochemical-phenomenon #cause-and-symptom #disinhibition #doctors #drugs

Standard economics assumes that we are rational... But, as the results presented in this book (and others) show, we are far less rational in our decision making... Our irrational behaviors arevneither random nor senseless- they are systematic and predictable. We all make the same types of mistakes over and over, because of he basic wiring of our brains.-pg. 239 ↗

— Dan Ariely

#educational #inspriational #education

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#forgiveness #malice #suffering #understanding #forgiveness

If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much. ↗

— Carol Plum-Ucci

#hurt #life #life

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#change #human #human behavior #human personality #image

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#act #behavior #conscious #conscious decision #decision

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#behavior #fact #feelings #give #good

It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late. ↗

— Luc Montagnier

#behavioral #cannot #certain #changes #difficult