Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Behavior..............























"Strong will and keen perception overpower old manners,
and create new; and the thought of the present moment
has a greater value than all the past."

"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior,
like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."

"An old man who added elevating culture to a large
experience of life, said to me, 'When you come into the
room, I think I will study how to make humanity
beautiful to you.'"

"The soul which animates Nature is not less significantly
published in the figure, movement, and gesture of animated
bodies, than in its last vehicle of articulate speech.  This
silent and subtle language is Manners; not what, but how,
Life expresses."

-All quotes excerpted from Ralph Waldo Emerson's
essay, Behavior.

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