#behavior

We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed. ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

#life #relationships #life

it seems that once again people engage in a search for evidence that is biased toward confirmation. Asked to assess the similarity of two entities, people pay more attention to the ways in which they are similar than to the ways in which they differ. Asked to assess dissimilarity, they become more concerned with differences than with similarities. In other words, when testing a hypothesis of similarity, people look for evidence of similarity rather than dissimilarity, and when testing a hypothesis of dissimilarity, they do the opposite. The relationship one perceives between two entities, then, can vary with the precise form of the question that is asked ↗

— Thomas Gilovich

#fallacy #human-behavior #logic #mind #psychology

سأحاول أن أحبك, لا لأنك جدير بهذا الحب ولكن لأنى جدير بأن أنّظف قلبى من كره الأخرين ↗

— Shadi Kamal Kandil

#life-and-living #life

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#dislike #good-turns #injury #kindness #like

How differently we behave in other peoples countries ... no sooner than we think we can get away with it, we do as we please. It doesn't require the breakdown of a social order. It takes a six-hour plane flight. ↗

— Aminatta Forna

#breakdown-of-society #dishonor #love

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#ego #glory #men

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be. ↗

— Julien Smith

#behavior #habits #natural #normal #norms

The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#behavior #character #devotion #god #godly

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#christianity #religion #die

At any time, you can rethink your life and reinvent yourself. “ “Choose your words better and say/affirm exclusively what you aspire to create in your life.“ “Dare to dream and dare to stand out. Get off the beaten path. ↗

— Denise Pitre

#destiny #fear #healing #health #job