#behavior

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. ↗

— P.J. O'Rourke

#behavior #being-exceptional #humor #humor

Handsome is as handsome does ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#handsomeness #manners #behavior

Reality denied comes back to haunt. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#history #psychology #self-deception #behavior

He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#male #behavior

Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good. ↗

— Theodore Kaczynski

#mental-illness #perspective #sanity #society #behavior

The synoptic Gospels of the New Testament manuscripts make us aware of Christ's character and gives us a view of the 'son-ship' He modeled which flowed out of that Divine character." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#gospels #modeling-behavior #new-testament #r-alan-woods #son-ship

If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up. ↗

— Woody Allen

#humor #organized-religion #religion #woody-allen #humor

If we all make systematic mistakes in our decisions, then why not develop new strategies, tools, and methods to help us make better decisions and improve our overall well-being? That's exactly the meaning of free lunches- the idea that there are tools, methods, and policies that can help all of us make better decisions and as a consequence achieve what we desire-pg. 241 ↗

— Dan Ariely

#educational #inspirational #education

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

— Jane Austen

#friendship

What sets our species apart is not just what men will do to other men, but how tirelessly they justify it. ↗

— William Dietrich

#men