Quotes About Reaction

Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it is easier to maintain control.

Remind yourself, "What upsets this person is their opinion of what has happened. Another in the same circumstance, taking a different perspective, would react quite differently."   Do not share these thoughts with the grieving person. Sympathize with them—even cry with them. Your tears will be outward, not inward.

When anyone provokes you, remember that it is actually your own opinion provoking you. It is not the person who insults or attacks you who torments your mind, but the view you take of these things. Do not be fooled by how things first appear. With time and greater perspective, you can regain inner peace.

We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens.

Or ce que Chris n'avait pas prévu, c'est que l'inverse arrive également : qu'un homme bien devienne une ordure. S'il y a des rédemptions, il y a aussi des damnations. Et elles sont toujours volontaires. Quand un accident introduit une cassure dans leur existence, les hommes réagissent diversement, Axel s'était enfermé dans le dégoût cynique de l'humanité, Chris ouvert à l'amour des autres.

When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant.

What one person does, several people usually consider.

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

Cock Cheese?" Jackson had been busy with flying paperweights. Yikes—busy week! "Couldn't have happened to sweeter smegma.

He jerked upright, moved his swollen ankle injudiciously, and let out a sound like Snoopy getting hit in the balls. "Alggghhh….

Emmy had turned so red that the woman laughed and said, "Well, I guess it's not blusher!

Hair-trigger temper, but he wept at Hallmark commercials.

The sound of a car door opening in front of you is similar to the sound of a gun being cocked.

Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

If truly tested, how would we react?

David?" Dave had been home five minutes when he heard his mom come in the front door and call his name. He was upstairs. In the bathroom. She called again. "David, answer me!" To be more specific, Dave was sitting on the toilet. "DAVID! ANSWER ME!" Dave knew that tone of voice. He had to do something right away. So he reached over and banged on the inside of the bathroom door. It was the wrong move. His mom was up those front stairs and

He recoils at the sight of me. Are they suppose to do that?

A hit dog will holler.

You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

I literally found myself weeping when I was reading 'After You.'

There are people that regardless of what it is, if it's something that's stressful, whatever it may be, they don't eat, they lose a lot of weight, a divorce, they get real thin. I'm the opposite.