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“If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.”

Ifs Might Love You Behavior Capable Love Yourself Just Love Yourself

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.”

Mean Doe War Violence Behavior Capable Intellect Arguing Inevitable Sophisticated Innate

Author:Jane Goodall

“It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.”

Humans Form Certain Behavior Capable Fascinating Primitive Warfare Hostile Chimpanzees Territorial

Book:Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

Source: Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

“I think anyone who has had a fight and who's a very good observer of the situation and people's behavior is capable of writing a fight. But you do start thinking about writing during the fights that you have with your partner.”

People Thinking Writing Fighting Situation Behavior Capable Very Good Partners Observers

Author:Julie Delpy

“Maybe you should think about the choices in your life, how someone can come and spit some kind of game to you and make you doubt every single thing that is your life, your relationship, your appearance, your job, your ambitions, your marriage, and how those thoughts can lead to choices and behavior that you never thought that you were capable of.”

Thinking Should Kind Jobs Choices Games Doubt Behavior Ambition Capable Appearance Our Relationship Spit

Author:Jurnee Smollett

“Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue.... The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.”

“Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.”

Thinking Giving Should Children Age Taught Becoming Conversation Behavior Capable Raises Dancing Ballet

Book:Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding

Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding

“Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking.”

Given Ability Risk Willing Offers Behavior Capable Consequence Guarantees Courageous Willingness Risk-taking Adverse

Author:Alfred Adler

“We all are capable of many different emotions and behaviors and thoughts and abilities and the way we sometimes respond to something is just very, it could be very, very different. You can one day feel this way, and the next day, feel that way.”

Way Feels Different Sometimes Next Ability Emotion One Day Behavior Capable Next Day Different Emotions

Author:Kurt Russell

“Lots of people commit crimes and don't get arrested. That's not the measure. But if you're going to be the president of the United States, we're reasonably going to put you under a microscope. And Donald Trump's tax behavior is absolutely important to understanding, is he qualified, is he morally fit, is he capable, is he trustworthy to have everything from the powers of federal law enforcement to the nuclear codes?”

People Important Understanding President Crime Fit Taxes Behavior Capable Commit Code Law Enforcement Trustworthy

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and deeply spiritual, glorifying the smallest life-form and embracing the most distant stars.”

Earth Spiritual Form Life Is Stars Simple Behavior Capable Sacred Love Life Creeds Smallest Improving Ecstatic

Book:An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain

Source: An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain

“Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of, you certainly cannot know them enough to hold them in your hands, to control their behavior, to fight, manipulate, cajole or nurse or soothe them into doing what they should or shouldn’t. People will do what they will do. The trick is admitting your own helplessness about that little fact.”

People Ifs Knows Should Heart Littles Persons Enough Facts Hands Fighting Behavior Capable Tricks Nurse Manipulate Helplessness Admitting

Author:Deb Caletti

“It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior.”