Quotes About Reaction

This is not to say I don't feel my own grief, which can hit powerfully at unexpected times. It's just that the telling does not automatically bring on my own upset, as people assume. I deal more with their reaction than they do with mine, and so you have to choose your timing.

How you react to the issue, IS the issue.

Every thought precedes an action.

Changes are inevitable and not always controllable. What can be controlled is how you manage, react to and work through the change process.

The madder it makes you, the harder you need to laugh at it.

RVM Thoughts for Today - "Things will happen.You can't stop them from happening, but you can control your reaction from making things worse . React Positively. Live Happily

Are you seeking to be offended?

Anger is fleeting, whereas hostility is enduring.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Whatever one does, someone is always happy...then again, someone else is not pleased

Confidence comes from thoughtful action, reflection, and experience. Confidence does not come from reaction.

When you are angry—stop, breath, relax, step back, think, and forgive before you react.

Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I'd exchanged more saliva than sentences.

Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.

They say your first reaction is the truest. They say your original thought, your initial gut feeling, is always the correct course of action.

The very person that such a client so dislikes is the person whom he has been allowing, strangely enough, to control his life by remote control. In reaction to the hated person he has been doing all he does over against that person. He is not free, but is bound by the very person whom he dislikes, and yet his anger burns so intensely that he is blinded to the foolishness of his pendulum action.

And the very, very worst thing you can do to angry cats or people is tell them to calm down.

Discipline is of no use whatsoever, since things are naturally eliminated by discernment without it being necessary for us to treat them brutally. Even in the course of the technique known as "letting-go", a faint shadow of discipline is implied, for letting-go of an object implies a certain discipline. Only an effortless and choiceless, I repeat choiceless reaction, is the hallmark of liberation.

There is a tendency to treat them as though they were acting, not from the inside, but from the outside, so that it may be possible to bring the shield against stimuli into operation as a means of defence against them.

Much slower, I turned around to see Vlad examining his fingernails, as if his hands weren't still ablaze in the flames that had blasted the ghoul's head off moments before. 'what the hell was that?' I gasped. 'Premature inflammation,' He replied. 'Happens sometimes. Very embarrassing, I don't like to talk about it.'

makes a face that's like the opposite of rolling his eyes, where his features get really still, and he looks away from Lorenzo with his eyelids half-closed, and he just waits for the words to go away.

What rhymes with smile?" "Bile, as in Your smile makes me want to throw up.

Holy bananas, said Skye.

I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is with you … we are in charge of our Attitudes.