Quotes about Behavior,
or the ways we should act in this life:

Kind words are like dripping honey;
sweetness to the palate
and health for the body.
Proverbs 16:24



The stupid give free rein to their anger
the wise wait for it to cool.. 
Proverbs 30:33


Men are great
only as they are kind.
Elbert Hubbard


A mild answer turns away anger,
but a sharp word makes tempers rise.
A soothing word is a tree of life, 
but a mischievous tongue breaks the spirit.
Proverbs 15:1,4


The essence of Christianity is courtesy. 
How can you follow the teachings of Jesus
and not be a person of the utmost courtesy
                to all your fellow human beings?                  
WWenn


The poor and the ignorant will continue to lie and steal
as long as the rich and educated
show them how.
from E. Hubbard’s Notebook




Say NO!
“Men are strong just in proportion as they have the ability to say NO, and stand by it.  Look back on your own life – what was it caused you the most worry, wear, vexation, loss and pain?  Wasn’t it because you failed to say NO at certain times and stick to it? This vice of the inability to say NO comes from lack of confidence in yourself.  … Cultivate self-confidence and learn to say NO.  It is a great thing to be a man, but it is a finer thing to be a Master – master of yourself.
   E. Hubbard’s Notebook, p. 142




The most tremendous danger …
that man has to face is the power of his ideas.  No cosmic power on earth ever destroyed 10 million [people] in four years.  But man’s psyche did it. 
And it can do it again …”
    Carl Jung, 1934


“The best way to think is to write.”
”Nineteen out of twenty people do not think.  They live like automatons, according to Ernest Dimnet, and consist merely of clothes, fashions, mannerisms, and formula.  Their lives are alike.  Dimnet’s theme in his 1929 bestseller, The Art of Thinking, was that thinking was self-expression, that it was best exemplified in the child, and that the best way to think was to write.”
Dr. George Sheehan



"Literature encourages tolerance
- bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities."
  Northrop Frye


Do you fear the force of the wind,
The slash of the rain?
Go face them and fight them,
Be savage again.
Go hungry and cold like the wolf,
       Go wade like the crane:
The palms of your hands will thicken,
The skin of your cheek will tan,
You’ll grow ragged and weary and
         swarthy,
 But you’ll walk like a man!
   “Do You Fear the Wind?” Hamlin Garland

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man,
and he is only completely a man when he plays.
  Friedrich Von Schiller





The Kindly Man
    He who loves his neighbor leniently will himself be judged leniently by God.  Let man always be intelligent and affable in his God-fearing.  Let him answer softly, curb his wrath and let him live in peace with his brethren and his kin and with every man, yes even with the pagan on the street, in order that he be beloved in heaven and on earth, and be acceptable to all men. 
The kindly man is the truly God-fearing man.

  The Talmud

Now the works of the flesh are obvious:
fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing and things like these.  
I am warning you, as I warned you before:
those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 

By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit
is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
generosity, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.  
There is no law against such things. 
And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
 If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit.

The Letter of Paul to the Galations, Chap. 5