Comportment Quotes

“The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly.”
― Stendhal, Love

“We are quiet, contemplative people, and our behaviour in the field is relatively aristocratic. Running is not necessarily beneath our dignity but it is in any case pointless because the flies move much too fast. Consequencly, we stand still, as if on guard, and moreover almost exclusively in blazing sunshine, little breeze and fragrant flowers. Passersby can therefore easily get the impression that the fly hunter is a convalescent of some kind, momentarily lost in meditation. This is not wholly inaccurate.”
― Fredrik Sjöberg, The Fly Trap

“Live with kindness, integrity and spirituality. Comport yourself with grace under pressure.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly.”
― Stendhal, Love

“The primitive world was governed by fate, fact, and necessity. By stealing fire from the gods, Prometheus turned facts into problems, called necessity into question, and defied fate. Classical man framed a civilized context for human perspective. He was aware that he could defy fate-nature-environment, but only at his own risk. Contemporary man goes further; he attempts to create the world in his image, to build a totally man-made environment, and then discovers that he can do so only on the condition of constantly remaking himself to fit it. We now must face the fact that man himself is at stake.”
― Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society