“Minnesotans hate zeal. Zeal is right up there on the list of suspicious emotional behaviors like joy and despair. Always err on the side of blandness.” StatesJoyHateSidesEmotionalDespairBehaviorListsSuspiciousZealMinnesotans Book:Prior Bad Acts Source: Prior Bad Acts
“To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.” MindEyeYoungJoyDesirePassionEnjoyWalksExistenceVisionWalkingThousandBehaviorAssumingDepthAdmireLive LifeUnhappinessLeisurePortraitsSublimePlungeGrotesqueMind Set Author:Honore de Balzac
“In the nurturing family...parents see themselves as empowering leaders not as authoritative bosses. They see their job primarily as one of teaching their children how to be truly human in all situations. They readily acknowledge to the child their poor judgment as well as their good judgment; their hurt, anger, or disappointment as well as their joy. The behavior of these parents matches what they say.” HumansWellsChildrenJobsJoyParentHurtPoorSituationLeaderTeachingBehaviorJudgmentDisappointmentAcknowledgeEmpoweringBossNurturingGood Judgment Author:Virginia Satir
“When J.J. [Abrams] called Lisa [Joy] and myself, he pitched us this idea of, what if we turn the structure around and started with the hosts. For us, that gave us a way to play with everything that we're interested in, all at once. It's the ultimate playground for us because we deal with questions about artificial intelligence, which is something I've long been fascinated by, but also human intelligence, or the lack thereof, human behavior, and interactive, immersive storytelling.” IfsWayHumansLongIdeasPlayJoyTurnsDealsBehaviorUltimateStructureStorytellingWhat IfArtificial IntelligenceHostFascinatedArtificialHuman BehaviorPlaygroundsHuman IntelligenceInteractiveAbram Author:Jonathan Nolan
“If one is going to offer children stories that underneath the story must be something that will inform, stimulate and guide, I love to be on board. I think anything that resonates with history, as does The Jungle Book and Watership Down, reflects patterns of behavior, power struggles, deprivation, migration, survival, joy, love, betrayal, and all of these things. It's tragic that children are encouraged to ignore history. We ignore history and any literature that is historically based in history. Even though both of those films involved animals, of course they reflect human behavior.” ThinkingChildrenBookFilmJoyLiteratureLove IsAnimalStruggleBehaviorSurvivalBetrayalTragicHuman BehaviorJunglePower Struggle Author:Ben Kingsley
“Happiness is about what happens to you; and, to an extent, it's dependent on your circumstances, your behaviors, and your attitudes. But the joy of Christ is much, much bigger. The joy of Christ is about relationship with a person. It's something you have access to, but it's also something you must choose. Christian joy shows up not only in the happy times but also in times of trial and discouragement.” ChristianJoyChristAttitudeCircumstancesBehaviorDiscouragement Author:David Jeremiah
“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.” PainFormJoyWishKindnessBehaviorHospitalityCourteousComplexion Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. (13)” FactsScienceJoyMemoriesIdentitySorrowBehaviorAmbitionLateCellsFree WillNervesAssemblyMoleculesPersonal Identity Author:Mary Roach
“Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.” PainJoyBehaviorMindfulnessSilentNoiseThinkerStillnessWatchers Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness; this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.” KnowsLoveLifeTruthRunningJoyLyingConsciousnessPovertyRelationshipLonelinessMovementIdentitySorrowBehaviorMirrorsGuidesIsolationAttachmentRunning AwayAbstractionKnow YourselfJoys And Sorrows Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti