Quotes About Reaction

Jealousy I wish we could express this emotion like kids do. If someone gets something you want, you just hit them over the head and snatch it back. That's why children are so un-neurotic. They are doing what we only dream of. The

And then you suddenly cried, and turned away.

In fact, I judge a driver by the amount of abuse he gets from other drivers. If, in the course of a day's journey, his sister or mother is insulted on at least six occasions, then I begin to suspect that there is something wrong with the way he drives. If he returns the insults tenfold, I ask him to stop, and get off before we are assaulted.

Be proactive." Far too often we react to our children's behavior, often on impulse, without regard for the consequences and with no plan for what we are trying to achieve. In those instances we are being acted on and not consciously choosing to act. Seeing a situation from

Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.

You should make a sad face when you meet a crocodile

Your behavior makes me angry, the outcome of your behavior makes me sad, altogether you offend me.

I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

It is our compulsive reaction to the situations in which we are placed that causes stress.

Every fluctuation on the level of the mind has a chemical reaction in the body, and every chemical reaction in the body in turn generates a fluctuation on the level of the mind.

The karmic mechanism is ceaseless. Every mental fluctuation in you creates a chemical reaction, which then proceeds to provoke a physical sensation. This sensation, in turn, reinforces the chemical reaction, which then strengthens the mental fluctuation. Over time, your very chemistry is determined by a series of unconscious reactions to sensory and mental stimuli.

I]t's a reaction that was produced by the society; and I think that it is the society that produced this that should be attacked, not the reaction that develops[.]

Holy shit whistles there are real live werewolves, my boyfriend is one of them, and my reaction to all this was to pull my pants down and get pounded? And that's when he wants to tell me he loves me?

Between stimulus and response there is a gap. It's a moment of choice about our actions and reactions. Most people blow past this, react out of habit and then claim they were helpless against themselves. Mind the gap.

We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens. —Epictetus, Greek philosopher I

If you are distressed about anything, the pain is not due to the thing but to your own estimate of it.

If you are distressed about anything, the pain is not one to the thing but to your own estimate to it.

Death is relief from reaction to the senses, from the puppet strings of impulse, from the analytical mind, and from service to the flesh.

Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us

The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.

Fundamentalism itself—whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim—is modern. It is a reaction to modern culture.

You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave

You can't help what you feel, Moira said once, but you can help how you behave.