c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
EXAMPLES OF TOLERANCE 1Long and successful married life means tolerating hell of nuisance of each other 2Listening to boring lectures and appreciating teachers makes successful and tolerant students3Ignoring all the noises of students makes successful and tolerant teacher4Swallowing all insults makes successful and tolerant politicians5Perfect deceiving each other makes successful and tolerant loversBEST OF TOLERANCE IS LISTEN LESS THINK MORE AND IGNORE THE FOOLISH PEOPLE
— Dr.T.V.Rao MD
That was the heart of the problem: every choice made sense from some vantage point.
— Jacob M. Appel, The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up
Tolerance was like one of those soothing creams—it drew out inflammation, it did away with the pain.
— Alexander McCall Smith, At the Reunion Buffet
Of what use is it to be tolerant of others if you are convinced that you are right and everyone who disagrees with you is wrong? That isn’t tolerance but condescension.
— Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love
I hold that it is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others'religions as we would have them to respect our own, a friendly study of theworld's religions is a sacred duty.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Understanding is the assassin of bigotry, and lays a strong foundation upon which to build a tolerant society.
— Narissa Doumani, A Spacious Life: Memoir of a Meditator
I have zero tolerance for people with zero tolerance.
— Tim Heaton
You can hardly walk up to complete strangers and say, "Good for you! You've risked banishment and brutality and ostracism just to be together, and I applaud your choice! You're in the vanguard of social change, and even though it's hard on you, the generations that come after you will have an easier time of it because you were brave enough to fall in love." So instead I told them I liked their baby. It means the same thing, but it's more socially acceptable.
— Sharon Shinn, Quatrain
A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.
— Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference.
— Mary Allsebrook, Born to Rebel: The Life of Harriet Boyd Hawes
Love for others what you love for yourself
— Anonymous
the truth doesn't tolerate makeup
— oliver mally
The building is rather like a medieval Castle and was established in the Sixth Century and soon afterwards, as the Moslem armies advanced Westwards from the Arabian Peninsula, somebody had the prescience to build a small Mosque in its courtyard to guard against it being burned or demolished. At the time of the Crusades it was the turn of the Monastery to protect the Mosque, and so it has been down the ages, each House of God extending its shelter to the other as opposing armies came and went.
— Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love
216This comprehension of our own personal misery makes us equally understanding of the misery of others. How can one who is really convinced of his own frailty, weakness, and inconstancy, dare to condemn others?
— Father Gabriel
For peace, let us teach the humanity, tolerance and nonviolence.
— Debasish Mridha
For peace, let us teach humanity tolerance and nonviolence.
— Debasish Mridha
I’ve matured. I have a much higher tolerance for boredom.
— Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers
What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,For good things, oft, are not so near;A German can't endure the French to see or hear of,Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
Discrimination against nonwhites will not be tolerated. Discrimination against whites is fine-as long as the discrimination is done in the name of nondiscrimination.
— Jared Taylor, Paved with Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America
We need a new religion, a global religion, based on one simple principle: live and let live.
— Marty Rubin
[Professor Greene's] reaction to GAMAY, as published in the Yale Daily News, fairly took one's breath away. He fondled the word "fascist" as though he had come up with a Dead Sea Scroll vouchsafing the key word to the understanding of God and Man at Yale. In a few sentences he used the term thrice. "Mr. Buckley has done Yale a great service" (how I would tire of this pedestrian rhetorical device), "and he may well do the cause of liberal education in America an even greater service, by stating the fascist alternative to liberalism. This fascist thesis . . . This . . . pure fascism . . . What more could Hitler, Mussolini, or Stalin ask for . . . ?" (They asked for, and got, a great deal more.)What survives, from such stuff as this, is ne-plus-ultra relativism, idiot nihlism. "What is required," Professor Greene spoke, "is more, not less tolerance--not the tolerance of indifference, but the tolerance of honest respect for divergent convictions and the determination of all that such divergent opinions be heard without administrative censorship. I try my best in the classroom to expound and defend my faith, when it is relevant, as honestly and persuasively as I can. But I can do so only because many of my colleagues are expounding and defending their contrasting faiths, or skepticisms, as openly and honestly as I am mine."A professor of philosophy! Question: What is the 1) ethical, 2) philosophical, or 3) epistemological argument for requiring continued tolerance of ideas whose discrediting it is the purpose of education to effect? What ethical code (in the Bible? in Plato? Kant? Hume?) requires "honest respect" for any divergent conviction?
— William F. Buckley Jr., God & Man At Yale
I don't know why people do the things they do to each other. We're all here to live out lives, to do our work, to raise our families, to love who we love. We're all here for the same things, but some, they can't let that be. They can't be happy or content with that. I don't know what that is. She handed the photos back to Peabody. Do you? At a loss, Eve shifted. No. If you don't, I don't suppose anybody really does.
— J.D. Robb
Tolerance. In all my years of debating politics and religion no mind was changed with derision and no thought convicted by way of harshness. You have no right to demand tolerance while deriding others and their beliefs in the process. Want tolerance? Extend it. You’ll be surprised because given it, people will actually listen.
— Donna Lynn Hope
What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardon each other's follies. This is the first principle of natural right.
— Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
Remember this! It is never an entire people who is cruel
—  it is merely individuals who exert their will on others.
Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.[Carnap’s famous plea for tolerance to which W.V. Quine took exception.]
— Rudolf Carnap
Margaret Attwood: “I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one race – the human race – and that we are all members of it.”Amen to that, I say. (Tom Bryson)
— Tom Bryson
Provoking separatist hatreds is an aggressive weed. We all have dirty hands and a broken heart. Put down your flag before you put down your weapons. If you must raise a flag, be sure it says, “We is better than you or I.” We will not persecute, nor tolerate persecution. We will not dominate, nor tolerate subjugation.
— Mikhayla Gracey, Save Me, I'm Yours: Saving Our Children from Ritual Abuse and Nazi Mind Control
..I was raised on the Torah, my wife on the Qu'Ran, my eldest son is an Atheist, my youngest is a scientologist, my daughter is studying Hinduism, I imagine there is room there for a holy war in my living room, but we practice live and let live.
— Jerome Bixby
As Christians we must realize there are millions of people in the world (indeed, within the Christian faith) who do not live by our worldview, and we must learn how to interact with them, love them, and tolerate them.
— Holly Sprink, Faith Postures: Cultivating Christian Mindfulness
More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.
— Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism
Did it ever occur to you, Charlie, that tolerance can reach a point where it is no longer tolerance? When that happens, the noble-sounding attitude on which most of us pride ourselves degenerates into weakness and acquiescence.
— Grace Metalious, Peyton Place
On the Races of Our Continuum:“First, you should understand that we are all The One’s children and that means we are all family. As one of my parents liked to say, “One, two, or three caudal orifices, it really doesn’t matter, for it still gets all the work done.” I like to say that we do not all look alike, but we all think alike.”The Great Siblinghood, Tymorann Alphrontex (as translated by D. J. Kenny)
— D.J. Kenny, A Kripslod in the Realm: Volume One of the Kripslod's Tale
All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.
— Roger Ebert, Life Itself
Ty swung around. He was obviously fed up with Ben's negative attitude.
— Lauren Brooke, Taking Chances
There is an important distinction to be drawn between tolerance of homosexuality and tolerance of sex tourism.
— Brian Whitaker, Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East
Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.
— Fulton J. Sheen, Life of Christ
Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil … a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons … never to truth. Tolerance applies to the erring, intolerance to the error … Architects are as intolerant about sand as foundations for skyscrapers as doctors are intolerant about germs in the laboratory. Tolerance does not apply to truth or principles. About these things we must be intolerant, and for this kind of intolerance, so much needed to rouse us from sentimental gush, I make a plea. Intolerance of this kind is the foundation of all stability.
— Fulton J. Sheen
If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they saw with the blind, prophetical, unsentimental eye of acceptance, which is to say, of faith. In the absence of this faith now, we govern by tenderness. It is a tenderness which, long cut off from the person of Christ, is wrapped in theory. When tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical outcome is terror. It ends in forced-labor camps and in the fumes of the gas chamber.
— Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Never complain about what you permit to be.
— Orrin Woodward
Tolerance, which is one form of love of neighbor, must manifest itself not only in our personal relations, but also in the arena of society as well. In the world of opinion and politics, tolerance is that virtue by which liberated minds conquer the evils of bigotry and hatred. Tolerance implies more than forbearance or the passive enduring of ideas different from our own. Properly conceived, tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another’s beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them. Tolerance quickens our appreciation and increases our respect for our neighbor’s point of view. It goes even further; it assumes a militant aspect when the rights of an opponent are assailed. Voltaire’s dictum, “I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,” is for all ages and places the perfect utterance of the tolerant ideal.
— Joshua Loth Liebman
Every second you spend holding someone else back is time not running the race yourself.
— Rebecca Murphy
A tolerance that no longer distinguishes between good and evil would become chaotic and self-destructive, just as a freedom that did not respect the freedom of others or find the common measure of our respective liberties would become anarchy and destroy authority.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Love of God thus becomes the dominant passion of life; like every other worth-while love, it demands and inspires sacrifice. But love of God and man, as an ideal, has lately been replaced by the new ideal of tolerance which inspires no sacrifice. Why should any human being in the world be merely tolerated? What man has ever made a sacrifice in the name of tolerance? It leads men, instead, to express their own egotism in a book or a lecture that patronizes the downtrodden group. One of the cruelest things that can happen to a human being is to be tolerated. Never once did Our Lord say, “Tolerate your enemies!” But He did say, “Love your enemies; do good to them that hate you” (Matt. 5:44). Such love can be achieved only if we deliberately curb our fallen nature’s animosities.
— Fulton J. Sheen, Peace of Soul: Timeless Wisdom on Finding Serenity and Joy by the Century's Most Acclaimed Catholic Bishop
When my little group get together, if we disagree about something, we can sort it out. Example: Mohona Hossain hates Divargiit Singh. Hates all his movies. Hates him with a passion. She likes that other fool with the eyelashes like a lady! But we compromise. Never once have I burned a single video of hers.
— Zadie Smith, White Teeth
Insularity is the foundation of ethnocentrism and intolerance; when you only know of those like yourself, it is easy to imagine that you are alone in the world or alone in being good and right in the world. Exposure to diversity, on the contrary, is the basis for relativism and tolerance; when you are forced to face and accept the Other as real, unavoidable, and ultimately valuable, you cannot help but see yourself and your 'truths' in a new - and trouble - way.
— Jack David Eller
Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.
— Heraclitus
Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.
— Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
Sometimes people will hear you and be able to change their behavior, but often their behavior has more to do with their own need for approval than with your need for support. No matter what their response, you need to be firm and hold your ground. At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility.
— Jillian Michaels, Winning by Losing: Drop the Weight, Change Your Life
If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.
— Philip G. Zimbardo
We considered behaving, but it's against our nature.
— O.R. Melling, The Book of Dreams
It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.
— Garrison Keillor
The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.
— Philip G. Zimbardo
Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well.Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta.Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower
— Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen
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
Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
— Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey
The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.
— Philip G. Zimbardo
Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.
— Philip G. Zimbardo
You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat. One doesn’t behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
I've always been a poor sport and a sore loser...any other behavior might encourage a repeat performance
— Josh Stern, And That’s Why I’m Single
Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.
— Philip G. Zimbardo
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?
— Philip G. Zimbardo
Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
— Philip G. Zimbardo
One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.
— Philip G. Zimbardo
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
— Marcel Proust
A veteran, calm and assured, he pauses for a well-measured moment in the doorway of the office and then, boldly, clearly, with the subtly modulated British intonation which his public demands of him, speaks his opening line, 'Good mor
— Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man
Religious beliefs...should never be an excuse to treat people badly.
— Zach Wahls, My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family
The porpoises and whale themselves, in their quests for entertainment, often created problems. One summer a fashion developed in the training tanks (I think Keiki started it) for leaning out over the tank wall and seeing how far you could balance without falling out. Several animals might be teetering on the tank edge at one time, and sometimes one or another did fall out. Nothing much happened to them, except maybe a cut or a scrape from the gravel around the tanks; but of course we had to run and pick them up and put them back in. Not a serious problem, if the animal that fell out was small, but if it was a 400-pound adult bottlenose, you had to find four strong people to get him back, and when it happened over and over again, the people got cross. We feared too, that some animal would fall out at night or when no one was around and dry out, overheat, and die. We yelled at the porpoises, and rushed over and pushed them back in when we saw them teetering, but that just seemed to add to the enjoyment of what I'm sure the porpoises thoguht of as a hilariously funny game. Fortunately they eventually tired of it by themselves.
— Karen Pryor, Lads Before the Wind: Diary of a Dolphin Trainer
Clever talk, ingratiating looks, fawning reverence: Tso-ch’iu Ming found that shameful, and so do I. Friendly while harboring resentment: Tso-ch’iu Ming found that shameful, too, and so do I.
— Confucius, The Analects
what sinks of iniquity these little villages can be
— M.C. Beaton, Agatha Raisin and the Busy Body, As the Pig Turns, Hiss
The best evidence of unsophisticated ides is the behavior that follows.
— R.A.Delmonico
Behavior slays the dragon of illusion and reveals the truth.
— Steve Maraboli
...insisting that you control the topic of behavioral conversation ensures accountability by students...
— Doug Lemov
How can there ever be any serious expectation of living in paradise, if one cannot behave appropriately, or be trusted to respect and honour all life?
— Mango Wodzak, The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook
If I want to deprive you of your watch, I shall certainly have to fight for it; if I want to buy your watch, I shall have to pay for it; and if I want a gift, I shall have to plead for it; and, according to the means I employ, the watch is stolen property, my own property, or a donation. Thus we see three different results from three different means. Will you still say that the means do not matter?
— Mahatma Gandhi, Non-Violent Resistance
It took me a long time to realize that when someone is not sorry for their behavior, that's their problem, not mine... I'll forgive them anyway, for me. Sometimes forgiveness is loving yourself enough to move on.
— Steve Maraboli
I share your feeling that such behavior is, in some sense, unwise or erroneous, but this does not mean that it does not occur,' Amos wrote to an American economist who complained about the description of human nature implied by 'Value Theory.' 'A theory of vision cannot be faulted for predicting optical illusions. Similarly, a descriptive theory of choice cannot be rejected on the grounds that it predicts 'irrational behavior' if the behavior in question is in fact observed.
— Michael   Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Pay attention, behavior speaks… While preacher are telling you to pray for abundance, they’re passing around a basket.
— Steve Maraboli
Behavior has consequences, and stupid behavior often has terrible consequences.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
How do you behave when you win? When your enemies are at your mercy and your power has become absolute: what then?
— Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
Behavior speaks... I need not listen to someone's apology
—  I'll watch for it. I've learned not to let someone's words blind me from their behavior.
If we conform our behavior to God’s ancient moral prescription, we are entitled to the sweet benefits of life. But if we defy its imperatives, then death is the inevitable consequence. AIDS is only one avenue by which sickness and death befall those who play Russian roulette with God’s eternal moral law.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Cheaters often accuse you of cheating. Liars often accuse you of lying. Insecure people often crumble your security. Behavior speaks... How someone treats you may have nothing to do with you
—  but can be a reflection of who they are.
You're lucky I'm drawn to things that are sick and weird. Makes it so I can actually still like you.
— Molly Ringle, Relatively Honest
Behavior speaks… If you’re chasing them, it means they’re running from you. Save your energy.
— Steve Maraboli
The "us versus them" mindset coupled with our social nature implies that we have an innate need to belong to clearly defined in-groups.
— Gad Saad, The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature
Habits aren’t destiny. Habits can be ignored, changed, or replaced. But the reason the discovery of the habit loop is so important is that it reveals a basic truth: When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks. So unless you deliberately fight a habit—unless you find new routines—the pattern will unfold automatically.
— Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Using information about animal behavior to justify social or political ideology is wrong . . . People need to be able to make decisions about their lives without having to worry about keeping up with the bonobos.
— Marlene Zuk
So sad "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior" the series ended open and it was made in 2011 and it ended in 2011!
— Deyth Banger
Control the manner in which a man interprets his world, and you have gone a long way toward controlling his behavior. That is why ideology, an attempt to interpret the condition of man, is always a prominent feature of revolutions, wars, and other circumstances in which individuals are called upon to perform extraordinary action.
— Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority
I was still too much of a fledgling with people to understand that, in the long run, nobody is a picnic and that I was no picnic myself.
— Philip Roth, The Plot Against America
The human brain works by identifying patterns. It uses information from the past to understand what is happening in the present and to anticipate the future. This strategy works elegantly in most situations. But we inevitably see patterns where they don’t exist. In other words, we are slow to recognize exceptions. There is also the peer-pressure factor. All of us have been in situations that looked ominous, and they almost always turn out to be innocuous. If we behave otherwise, we risk social embarrassment by overreacting. So we err on the side of underreacting.
— Amanda Ripley, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
BEHAVIOR is the bridge between what you want and what you have.
— Steve Maraboli
When someone tries to make life miserable for you, remember, they are fighting a losing battle with themselves.
— Amitav Chowdhury
Our thoughts shape how we behave.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Big data is based on the feedback economy where the Internet of Things places sensors on more and more equipment. More and more data is being generated as medical records are digitized, more stores have loyalty cards to track consumer purchases, and people are wearing health-tracking devices. Generally, big data is more about looking at behavior, rather than monitoring transactions, which is the domain of traditional relational databases. As the cost of storage is dropping, companies track more and more data to look for patterns and build predictive models".
— Neil Dunlop
[She] had the indefinable charm of someone who said little but thought much. Miss Prim had always felt that such people were at a marked advantage. They never said anything tactless, never spouted nonsense, never had cause to regret their words or justify themselves.
— Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera, The Awakening of Miss Prim
Behavior is math: Truth is found in the sum of its parts.
— Steve Maraboli
If someone stops where they should not, they’ll stop anywhere. If someone slights a person they should treat generously, they’ll slight anyone. And if someone races ahead, they retreat in a hurry.
— Mencius, Mencius
People's behavior depends upon their current situation and past experience.
— Jenil Kanani
Remorse shows the difference between a cruel person and one that is not.
— Federico Chini, The Sea Of Forgotten Memories
Behavior isn't something someone "has." Rather, it emerges from the interaction of a person's biology, past experiences, and immediate context.
— L. Todd Rose
You don’t say, “I’m sorry,”’ he says. ‘Getting injections, and experiencing pain, is part of life. There’s no reason to apologize for that.’ He seems to be channelling Rousseau, who said, ‘If by too much care you spare them every kind of discomfort, you are preparing great miseries for them.’ (I’m not sure what Rousseau thought about suppositories.)
— Pamela Druckerman, French Children Don't Throw Food
When you get scared, embarrassed, angry, nervous, with full of emotion and bad thoughts, remember to maintain your discipline. It earns you respect the more.
— Auliq Ice
You've probably missed out something really great but you haven't let that drive you insane but always remember to be yourself.
— Auliq Ice
If they do it often, it isn’t a mistake; it’s just their behavior.
— Steve Maraboli
Beware of anything that would tarnish God's mirror in you. It is always something good stains it—good, but not best.
— Oswald Chambers
Organizations can’t change their culture unless individual employees change their behavior—and changing behavior is hard.
— Keith Ferrazzi
...moderate your desire of producing perfection, temper your eagerness to produce faultless performance...and soften your manners towards those who are subordinate to you...
— Cecil Woodham-Smith
I don't like rats any more than the next bloke, but they ain't wicked and cruel like people can be. They're just ratty in their habits.
— Philip Pullman, I Was a Rat!
People now a days are in business of minding other's business.
— Kartik Mehta
Adam says I isolate. He is addicted to telling me that I spend too much time in my head. It’s an unhealthy behavior. Look, I don’t see how not bothering other people with your screwed-up vision of the world constitutes unhealthy behavior.
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
Severe punishment unquestionably has an immediate effect in reducing a tendency to act in a given way. This result is no doubt responsible for its widespread use. We 'instinctively' attack anyone whose behavior displeases us - perhaps not in physical assault, but with criticism, disapproval, blame, or ridicule. Whether or not there is an inherited tendency to do this, the immediate effect of the practice is reinforcing enough to explain its currency. In the long run, however, punishment does not actually eliminate behavior from a repertoire, and its temporary achievement is obtained at tremendous cost in reducing the over-all efficiency and happiness of the group. (p. 190)
— B.F. Skinner, Science and Human Behavior
The most effective alternative process [to punishment] is probably extinction. This takes time but is much more rapid than allowing the response to be forgotten. The technique seems to be relatively free of objectionable by-products. We recommend it, for example when we suggest that a parent 'pay no attention' to objectionable behavior on the part of his child. If the child's behavior is strong only because it has been reinforced by 'getting a rise out of' the parent, it will disappear when this consequence is no longer forthcoming. (p. 192)
— B.F. Skinner, Science and Human Behavior
If you want to save youself from problems just hold the hands of truth
— Hussain Rasheed
In my opinion, being a Christian is a noticeable behavior. If you have to tell somebody you’re a Christian, then you’re probably not doing it right.
— Steve Maraboli
You want to BE happy and HAVE success? Join those words, BE+HAVE… To experience success in your life requires that you decide what you want and BEHAVE accordingly.
— Steve Maraboli
I understand that you are under a lot of pressure and that it's hard being a bride. That is all well and good. But it does not, ever, entitle you to be rude, selfish, uncaring, and generally obnoxious to me or Haven or anyone else. We've been very patient with you because we're your family and we love you, but it stops here. I don't care if the wedding is two weeks or two hours away, you were never raised to behave this way.
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Just because we live in a world of chaos and madness doesn’t mean we have to subscribe to that sort of behavior.
— J.M. Northup, Fears of Darkness
If they do it often, it isn't a mistake; it’s just their behavior.
— Steve Maraboli
Whatever worth doing at all is worth doing well.
— Pillip D.Stanhope
Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has gone to hell in a handbasket.
— Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
You can teach a child the importance of pain by your behavior. You can also teach as child the importance of no pain by your behavior.
— Milton H. Erickson
Set a high standard on how you treat women. Whether they appreciate it or not, don’t lower your own standards of behavior.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
LOVE – PEACE – SUCCESS: When they are what we desire, they fuel our hope… When they are seen in our behavior, they change our lives.
— Steve Maraboli
Perhaps we can recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them.
— Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally
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, The Memory of Love
You’re being nicer to me than I've been to you lately," I said."Yes, I am. But then, Hitler was nicer to Poland than you've been to me lately.
— Molly Ringle, What Scotland Taught Me
If in doubt, keep quiet. Play safe, talk less, and observe.
— Alison Golden, The Modern No-Nonsense Guide to Paleo: Develop Your Skills to Lose Weight, Gain Energy and Take Back Your Health
As believers, everything we do is based on how we view God.
— Hayley DiMarco, Cupidity: 50 Stupid Things People Do For Love And How To Avoid Them
We are what we adapt to.
— Carter Stroud, Natural Selection's Paradox: The Outlaw Gene, the Religion of Money, and the Origin of Evil
The realization, early in high school, that a particle behaved differently if observed or left alone.
— Lara Santoro, The Boy
We generally describe the most repulsive examples of man's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying that such behavior is characteristic of less highly developed animals than ourselves. In fact, however, the extremes of brutal behavior are confined to us: there exists no parallel in nature to our savage treatment of each other. The unmistakable truth is that man is the most vicious and cruel species that ever walked the earth.
— Hans Askenasy, Are We All Nazis?
Maybe what stopped people from voting wasn't a lack of information about the candidates or a feeling that the outcomes of races didn't matter or a sense that a trip to the polls was inconvenient. What if voting wasn't only a political act, but a social one that took place in a liminal space between the public and private that had never been well-defined to citizens? What if toying with those expectations was key to turning a person into a voter? What if elections were simply less about shaping people's opinions than changing their behaviors?
— Sasha Issenberg, The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns
Out of one hundred random thoughts that pass through your mind, ninety-five are your brain's indirect responses (positive & negative) to what you believe others think of you.
— Saurabh Sharma
Just because your pain is understandable, doesn't mean your behavior is acceptable.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
In the end, those who demean others only disrespect themselves.
— D.B. Harrop
Let me explain before another word is written: I have never once asked a cat, "So tell me what's up, Charlie?" and Charlie says, "Jeez Jackson, thanks for asking. A little annoyed by the fluorescent lights, and will you please check out this tiny piece-of-junk pan I have to crap in but, hey, I still got my legs, you know? Can't complain, pal.
— Jackson Galaxy, Cat Daddy: What the World's Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me About Life, Love, and Coming Clean
In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own.
— Bertrand Russell
The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected their ways to get back in the light of gospel truth.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Tell them stories.
— Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?
— Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere
You are dead- what am I speaking to?
— Philip Pullman
Why, if one wants to compare life to anything, one must liken it to being blown through the Tube at fifty miles an hour--landing at the other end without a single hairpin in one's hair! Shot out at the feet of God entirely naked! Tumbling head over heels in the asphodel meadows like brown paper parcels pitched down a shoot in the post office! With one's hair flying back like the tail of a race-horse. Yes, that seems to express the rapidity of life, the perpetual waste and repair; all so casual, all so haphazard...But after life. The slow pulling down of thick green stalks so that the cup of the flower, as it turns over, deluges one with purple and red light. Why, after all, should one not be born there as one is born here, helpless, speechless, unable to focus one's eyesight, groping at the roots of the grass, at the toes of the Giants?
— Virginia Woolf
That human life is but a first installment of the serial soul and that one's individual secret is not lost in the process of earthly dissolution, becomes something more than an optimistic conjecture, and even more than a matter of religious faith, when we remember that only commonsense rules immortality out.
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature
To Hell we have already been.
— Michael L. Martin Jr., Burn in Hades
Eternity was a restless bitch.
— Michael L. Martin Jr., Burn in Hades
And here we see again that we do not decide our own lives. Dieneke, even if we won't see each other again on earth, we will never be sorry for what we did, that we took this stand.
— Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
Human knowledge hasn't been complete enough to understand the afterlife if it hasn't been through the valley of death.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Some would do just about anything for an exodus.
— Michael L. Martin Jr., Burn in Hades
Life goes on. And so does death.
— Michael L. Martin Jr., Burn in Hades
...he fed his insides before they fed on him.
— Michael L. Martin Jr., Burn in Hades
We had enough quite enough snobbery in this world without exporting it to the hereafter.
— Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire
At first it's pretty cool: the limitless fruit of knowledge hanging low in your path. Then you realize it's the only thing to eat around here.
— Rajiv Joseph, Three Plays: Gruesome Playground Injuries / Animals Out of Paper / Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
The freedom is really free only happened in this life: after life is pseudo freedom
— Giharu Si Perempuan Gunung
Anyone who craves an afterlife has not lived their life to the fullest.
— Robert  Black
We are not forgotten by those we have loved, and they do visit us more times than we consciously know. I hope my story provides some comfort to those who have experienced the loss of someone they love deeply.“Paula Lenz’s book shows how the deepest grief can unlock the greatest spiritual treasures. The story of how the death of her beloved brother Don also provided her — and us — with inconvertible evidence of life after death should convince any skeptic that we live after we die. Driving into Infinity will take you on a riveting journey of self-discovery.” -Kenneth Ring, Ph.D.,Author of Lessons from the Light
— Paula Lenz
It's everything and nothing ... It's like the absent moment between night and day.
— Sophie Hardcastle, Breathing Under Water
Now is the time to create living relationships with our loved ones who have died.
— Lynn Rollins Stull
That's what we think because we can't imagine what it's like to not exist.
— Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue
But what really happens after you are dead - that is what I want to know?I cannot tell you Renisenb. You should ask a priest these questions.He would just give me the usual answers. I want to know.We shall none of us know until we are dead ourselves.
— Agatha Christie, Death Comes as the End
I'm sorry," Leon said. "I can see you loved your two friends and you miss them, and maybe they're flying around somewhere in the sky, zipping here and there and being spirits and happy. But you and I and three billion other people are not, and until it changes here it won't be enough, Phil; not enough. Despite the supreme heavenly father. He has to do something for us here, and that's the truth. If you believe in the truth--well, Phil, that's the truth. The harsh, unpleasant truth.
— Philip K. Dick, Radio Free Albemuth
When I die, I wonder what will happen to me. Is there some place like heaven, and will I be able to meet you there someday? I don't know. There's no way to know. No one knows what comes after death. But at the very least, we won't be able to talk until then.There's a wide, deep and fast running river between the living and the dead. Once you cross that river, no matter what happens, you're never coming back. It's a one way trip.
— Ao Jyumonji, Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash: Volume 1
If there is an after, I hope it's not dark. And I hope you can remember. I'd hate to wander around in the dark forever, not knowing who I was or what I was doin' here, or not even knowing that I'd ever had anything different.
— Richard Bachman, The Long Walk
Life has its insidious way of crawling its way back into your sphere and you’re dumbed down again by so many distractions including work obligations, social niceties and mountains of clothes washing.
— Josh Langley, Turning Inside Out - what if everything we've been taught about life is wrong?
I think that's shameful, even if it's just a story, to propose an afterlife for evil... Any afterlife notion is a manipulation and a sop. It's shameful the way the unionists and the pagans both keep talking up hell for intimidation and the airy Other Land for reward.
— Gregory Maguire
Faith is, by its very definition, belief without proof.
— Stephen King
If there is only nothingness after death, what’s the point of this world?
— Fuminori Nakamura, The Kingdom
I think the purpose of life is to know who we are to ourselves and others, to know where we are in terms of time and place, and to do what we can to stay alive. what happens thereafter is the purpose of death.
— pfano percy rathogwa
I've come to believe in some kind of afterlife. A return to our true selves, a spirit self. We're just in this physical body till we go back to spirit.
— Kent Haruf
I realized aloud in the midst of saying it that even when we die we probably don't find out the answer as to why we were ever alive. Even the avowed atheist probably thinks that in death he'll get some answer. I mean God will be there, or there won't be anything at all.'But that's just it,' I said, 'we don't make any discovery at that moment! We merely stop! We pass into nonexistence without ever knowing a thing.' I saw the universe, a vision of the sun, the planets, the stars, black night going on forever. And I began to laugh.'Do you realize that! We'll never know why the hell any of it happened, not even when it's over!' I shouted at Nicolas, who was sitting back on the bed, nodding and drinking his wine out of a flagon. 'We're going to die and not even know. We'll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we won't any longer be witness to it. We won't have even that little bit of power to give meaning to it in our minds. We'll just be gone, dead, dead, dead, without ever knowing!
— Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
I am a part of you, and the part of me, that is a part of you, will always be a part of you. That part will never leave you.
— Deni Hankin, I am Phoenix
It is to be doubted whether anybody who said good-bye to Bert had any faith or interest whatsoever in the life everlasting. This life had, some of them thought, been quite bad enough.
— Margaret Drabble
Time is more than life, it is afterlife.
— Khalid Masood
What's afterlife?" Asher asked, sincerely, indicating a trio of passing shoppers laden with brightly colored bags, who turned up their noses. "There's only life.
— David Edison, The Waking Engine
Death is, in fact, oddly pleasant, and certainly an improvement on what comes immediately before it.
— E.A.A. Wilson, Ascension Denied
In that eternity of his, where everybody will be happy, how could he feel the lack of her, the loss of her?
— Marilynne Robinson, Lila
If you thought dead was just dead, then you wouldn't have to worry about any of this.
— Marilynne Robinson, Lila
Now love doesn't stop at death - or if it does, it's a pretty poor sort of love! In fact, grief could almost be defined as the form love takes when the object of love has been removed; it is love embracing an empty space, love kissing thin air and feeling the pain of nothingness. But there is no reason at all why love should discontinue the practice of holding the beloved in prayer before God.
— N.T. Wright, For All the Saints: Remembering the Christians Departed
Death is the start of a beginning, life is the start of the end, and the cycle continues forever." AFTERLIFE - TIM I GURUNG/AUTHOR
— Tim I. Gurung, Afterlife
How could you die and not be old enough to hear about premarital sex? How could you die and still not be allowed to fall in love or be honest? Surely not everything had to wait for university and a good job. Passion and truth had to trump even those things.
— Zen Cho, Spirits Abroad
McKenzie was Caroline's primary wingman. They had matching Coach bags to prove it.
— Amy LaPalme, AfterLife
The myth of purgatory is an allegory, a projection, from the present on to the future. This is why purgatory appeals to the imagination. It is our story. It is where we are now. If we are Christians, if we believe in the risen Jesus as Lord, if we are baptized members of his body, then we are passing right now through the sufferings which form the gateway to life.
— N.T. Wright, For All the Saints: Remembering the Christians Departed
How much does a man need to survive? two meals a day, one bed for the night and a few sets of clothes. That is all you need in life
— Tim I. Gurung, Five Steps
Never take another human being to the third life, because we don't know how to go.
— Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
If the afterlife really is a big war,” Kaladin said, “then I hope I end up in Damnation. At least there I might be able to get a wink or two of sleep.
— Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
Death isn't the end of your life, you know. Your body is a lock. Death is the key. The key turns... and you're free. To be anywhere. Everywhere. Two places at once. Nowhere. Part of the background hum of the universe.
— Joe Hill, Locke & Key, Vol. 6: Alpha & Omega
Test.” Hades’ lovely mouth twisted bitterly around the word, as if he could read Helen’s thoughts and agreed with her. “If life is a test, then who do you think grades it?”“You?” she guessed.
— Josephine Angelini, Goddess
Death is only the death of death not the death of life.
— Muhammad Ankan
Death is only frightening from the near side.
— Jim Butcher, Ghost Story
I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.
— Veronica Roth, Insurgent
If we have no evidence of what happens after life, then there are infinite logical possibilities. Since there is only one kind of nothing, that means the chances of the being no afterlife is one in infinity. Therefore the only logical philosophy is that there is an afterlife, I just don't know what it is.
— Aidan Crowe
Well, suppose we remain upon earth, after all? Suppose we bravely accept the death of our dreams at the same time as the death of our bodies? This beyond is decidedly uncertain, quite vague and mobile. I do not believe that it exists everywhere; I believe that it is nowhere except in our infantile imaginations. Born with us, it will end at the same moment that we do, to be born anew in our posterity. The beyond is the earthly tomorrow, as we bequeath it to our heirs and as they modify it by their efforts and in accordance with their tastes.
— Rémy de Gourmont, Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques