HOW TO BEHAVE

HOW TO BEHAVE

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  • Diva Edicts
    • The Diva Edicts – How to Live in Harmony with Your Many Selves, Other Selves, and the Universe without being a Troll
    • How to Behave in the Most Important Place on Earth – La Vie en Cafe
    • How to Have Proper Diva Relationships
    • How to Behave with a Romantic Partner
    • How to Dress (for women)
    • More Diva Tips for Fabulous Living
    • Pro Diva Assistance
    • How to Travel like a Diva
  • How To
    • How to Have the Perfect Spa Experience
    • How to Go Camping
    • How to Deal with Mansplainers
    • How to Feed People at Work or Muffins for Meetings
    • How To Be Happier: Hands, Colors, No Words, No Screens
    • How to Be Well Read
    • How to Have a Happier House
    • How to Behave (and Survive) in a Natural Disaster
    • How to Behave with Other People’s Pregnancies
    • How to Behave with Children Who Belong to Other People
    • How to Decorate
    • How to Have Time
    • What to do Instead of Writing a New Year’s Resolution List
    • How to Behave when Life (hopefully, seldom) Does Not Behave as It Should
    • How to Accomplish Something
  • Living Overseas
    • How to Survive Small Towns (aka a weekend in the Big Smoke)
    • Eating Foreign at Home
    • How to Be Happy Overseas – Part 1
    • How to Be Happy Overseas – Part 2
    • How to Have Helpful Help – Part 1: You are Not in Control
    • How to Have Helpful Help – Part 2: It’s Not Your Money and it’s Not About the Money
    • How to Have Helpful Help – Part 3: Do It Yourself
    • How to Behave with Americans and English
    • Returning to Your Home Country for a Visit after Living Overseas in the Middle East Means…
    • How to Have the Flu in Two Cultures
    • How to Make a Screen Door with Oompa-Loompas, Khana, Do-hickys and Nail Polish
    • How to Hang Out in Hotel Lobbies (Not Just for Ladies of the Evening Anymore!)
    • How to Survive a Hotel Curse
    • How to Survive Christmas Overseas (In a Place that Doesn’t Celebrate Christmas)
    • How to Have a Tailor
  • Snark
    • How to Succeed at Living in The Middle East When You Are Not Middle Eastern Proficiency Quiz (Western, Middle-Class Version)
    • How to Talk to Your Significant Other about Your Relatives
    • Managing by Machiavellian Cookies: The Secret to Corporate Success
    • How to Behave if You Are a Doctor: Proper Bedside Manner Explicated
    • How to Cope with Engineers at the University Splendide
    • How to Properly Care for and Feed Your Secretary/ Assistant
    • A Gift for You! A Secret Santa Memo to American Men on How to Dress
    • A Good Movie – A Good Year
    • How to Watch Snake Movies: The Life and Times of a True Pessimist
  • Travel
    • How to Properly Pick a City to Visit
    • Aussie A-Go-Go – Unalloyed Joy in the Southern Hemisphere
    • Bali Hai might be calling you – but that doesn’t mean you need to answer
    • Raffles (in Singapore) – The Dream that Was Not to Be
    • Visiting the Island of Malta – For Those Times When A Good Italian Cafe Might Be Too Much Joy
    • India – Going Home to a Place I’d Never Been Before
    • How to Find a Tea Plantation – Happiness in Malaysia
    • “Travel Hopefully”: Thailand
    • Sweden – Fuss City
    • How to Deal with Zurich
    • The Unshakable Quack – How to Hotel
    • Vegas – Vegas – Vegas
    • Maine: How to Survive B & Bs, Bears, Bobcats and Excessive Sharing at Breakfast
    • How to Move to Vermont
    • How to Behave in Vermont (for the very short period you live there)
    • The Utter Tiaralessness of Waterbury, Warren, and Waitsfield
    • You Never Know Who Has a Little Table; or, The Necessity of Tipping
  • Alma-Tadema Joy
    • Alma-Tadema Exhibit
    • Alma-Tadema Exhibit – The Clark Art Institute
    • Alma-Tadema Exhibit – Leighton House Museum
  • Autobiography
    • How to Be a Bad Example Auntie
    • How to Be the One Who is not Busy, but too Busy for a Hike
    • The Importance of Everyone
    • People We Love
    • Singing the Praises of People We Love
    • People We Don’t Love – Stealth Trolls

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No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous. Samuel Johnson

Boethius

It is because you don’t know the end and purpose of things that you think the wicked and the criminal have power and happiness.

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

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Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand and take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth; and then some day you will be worthy of the banquets of the gods. But if you do not take these things even when they are set before you, but despise them, then you will not only share the banquet of the gods, but share also their rule. (Epictetus)

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