“Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.” FeelsYearsMayMeanShowsFeelingsActionFacesFictionNovelBehaviorOur ActionsNew ExperiencesInitiate Book:On Writing Source: On Writing
“Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.” MenWellsKindMayChildrenFacesFoundGamesAnimalClearBehaviorLonelyMurderBlindGolfExcuseCornersGentleGrassBelovedGentlemanTortureCategoriesElderlyFuryHackingRobberyProvocationMutteringMalediction Author:A. P. Herbert
“Whatever religious people may say about their love of God or the mandates of their religion, when their behavior toward others is violent and destructive, when it causes suffering among their neighbors, you can be sure the religion has been corrupted and reform is desperately needed.” PeopleMayHas BeensReligionSufferingCausesReligiousNeededBehaviorNeighborViolentReformGod LoveDestructiveMandates Author:Charles Kimball
“The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.” MayQuietBehaviorRebellionStrongestTeamwork Author:Benjamin Spock
“We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems.” YearsMayProblemEnvironmentEvolutionBehaviorBillions Author:W. Richard Stevens
“While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.” MayCommunityBehaviorObsessionPlagueObsessiveLoneAntisocialMoxie Author:Robert Genn
“Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very pleasant, but it's familiar.” ThinkingMayFormEmotionBehaviorNegativeOptimismAddictionFamiliarPleasantDestructiveInvokeNegative ThinkingDestructive Behavior Author:Lauren Mackler