Quotes About Reactions

Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.

If I facepalm myself too much, maybe the pimples will go away.

Murphy's face went through several mutations as he spoke, as if small animals were scurrying about just beneath his skin.

I can only control my actions, not their reactions, " Senna replied. "But I have to live with both.

Misunderstandings are a normal part of life, and the outcomes of these depend upon how we choose to react to them.

Further evidence of perpetrators' lack of overt psychopathology is found in reports of their early reactions to the human suffering caused by their extraordinary evil. A wide range of perpetrator accounts reveal that initial involvement in killing often led to nightmares, anxiety attacks, debilitating guilt, depression, gastrointestinal problems, temporary impotence, hallucinations, substance abuse, numerous bodily complaints, and many other signs of stress reactions.

I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations.

Even traumas that we have pushed outside our consciousness affect us deeply. They affect our nervous systems, our bodies, our reactions to events, our choices, our feelings about ourselves and others, and many other aspects of our experience. Out of sight is not out of bodymind.

Relationship triggers produce hurt, suspicion, and sometimes anger. The way out is to disentangle the feedback from the relationship issues it triggers, and to discuss both, clearly and separately. In practice, we almost never do this. Instead, as receivers, we take up the relationship issues and let the original feedback drop.

They're irrational.

You can't change other people or (some) conditions; you can change only your reactions to them.

Accept your parents' behavior with compassion, without needing to react to it, that is to say, without personalizing it. Be aware also of your own unconscious assumptions or expectations that lie behind your old, habitual reactions to them. 'My parents should approve of what I do. They should understand me and accept me for who I am.' Really? Why should they? The fact is they don't because they can't. Their evolving consciousness hasn't made the quantum leap to the level of awareness yet.

The world always makes sure that you cannot fool yourself for long about who you really think you are by showing you what truly matters to you. How you react to people and situations, especially when challenges arise, is the best indicator of how deeply you know yourself.

Struggle or stress is a sign that the ego has returned, as are negative reactions when we encounter obstacles

Be present as the watcher of your mind- of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations

Your sense of who you are determines what you perceive as your needs and what matters to you in life -- and whatever matters to you will have the power to upset and disturb you. You can use this as a criterion to find out how deeply you know yourself. What matters to you is not necessarily what you say or believe, but what your actions and reactions reveal as important and serious to you. So you may want to ask yourself the question: What are the things that upset and disturb me?

inconsciencia ordinaria significa estar identificado con sus procesos de pensamiento y con sus emociones, sus reacciones, deseos y aversiones. Es el estado normal de la mayoría de las personas.

Before you were the thoughts, emotions, and reactions; now you are the awareness, the conscious Presence that witnesses those states.

What matters to you is not necessarily what you say or believe, but what your actions and reactions reveal as important and serious to you.

Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.

Men are not disturbed by things, but by the views which they take of them

I find Washington audiences are basically the same as every other audience; they watch me and go, 'Who's idea was it to go see him? And is it too late to ask for my money back?'

If you watched 'Lost,' sometimes the episodes were crazy good, and sometimes you're like, 'That one was just sorta there.'

The Madonna tour thing was definitely funny that - you know, children were crying watching us... and it was interesting seeing how angry their parents were.