"I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous."

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Source : Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.101, New York Review of Books

Elaine Dundy

#People Quotes #Behave Quotes

“Christ wishes the Christian Community to be a body that is perfect because we work together towards a single end, and the higher the motive which actuates this collaboration the higher, no doubt, will be the union. Now the end in question is supremely exalted: the continuous sanctification of the Body for the glory of God and the Lamb that was slain [Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament].”
“I think what happens in a religious life is that we have those experiences of affirmation and that one starts to live a Christian life or a Jewish life or a Muslim life or a Buddhist life, by affirming that affirmation each day. Each day you say 'Yes' to that Yes. So the life of being a Christian for example, is always a life of double affirmation, that you each day say 'Yes' to those counter-experiences of saying 'Yes', even when you're not experiencing them at that time, you're remaining loyal to that experience.”
“Perhaps many of us do not like it where we are in the universe now, but we can all be certain that we got where we are -our own decisions to expand in love or withdraw from it.”
“Yves Saint Laurent hated fashion. He loved style.”
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
“Sometimes sports can provide a medicine that no doctor can provide.”
“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”
“If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences”

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