Quotes About Response

My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.

Life isn't happening to you; life is responding to you.

Anger is inside you, revealed by an outside source.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the oranges you originally asked for.

The purpose of life is to listen - to yourself, to your neighbor, to your world and to God and, when the time comes, to respond in as helpful a way as you can find ... from within and without.

Life is an echo. What you send out comes back.

Joy is a decision, a really brave one, about how you are going to respond to life.

Life is going to present you with tons of problems, it's what you do about them that matters.

How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

When life gives you lemons, throw them back.

Ten percent of life is what happens; the other 90 percent is what you do about it.

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

Let your attacker worry about his life. Don't hold back. Strike no more after he is incapable of further action, but see that he is stopped.

It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar, he gives me a food pellet."

We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be.

Everyone in Life does Exactly what they Know How to Do Given the Conditions of their Lives

Your ideas suck" "So does my mouth. Why don't you get your dick over here and I'll demonstrate.

We cannot always control or avoid what happens to us, but we can control what it does to our spirit.

although there are certain limbic system (emotional) programs that can be triggered automatically, it takes less then 90 seconds for one of these programs to be triggered, surge through our body, and then be completely flushed out of our bloodstream... within 90 seconds from initial trigger, the chemical components of my anger has completely dissipated from my blood and my automatic response is over.

Something horrible may have happened to you, but you always have a choice in how you respond to it. You have the "Why does bad stuff always happen to me? I'm never going to find happiness" option, and the "This sucks but I'm going to learn and evolve from it, examine what role I played in it, and ultimately it will help me become the person I'm supposed to be" option.

Houston, we've had a problem here. Houston, we've had a problem.

Wisdom is not having God's perspective of the whole matter before us, but having God's perspective about what next response will honor Him while keeping us still usable to Him.