Quotes About Response

The key of liberation is to acknowledge that your unhealthy response to other peoples' behavior is a habit – and most importantly – that it's a habit you can break.

A static and unyielding divinity is truly incommensurate with the very fabric of existence and is not in fact supported by many biblical stories that indicate a relational God who weeps over a beloved people, a beloved earth, who anguishes and builds, who argues and responds, who watches over creation (like a mother eagle), and who is as steadfast as a rock.

Four Horsemen: Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling.

Evil devastates any possibility of an intellectual response; the tools of the rational intellect are as helpless incoping with the aftereffects of evil as it was in preventing it.

Am I now going to mimic that person's bad attitude and make the situation worse, or am I going to be the person I want to be?

We trust in God's will knowing that, in general, we are far more efficient and effective when we respond calmly and in an unhurried manner than when we explode in unthinking anger.

Instead, we accept our powerlessness over the fact of the situation and then calmly do what we can to improve the situation. We trust in God's will knowing that, in general, we are far more efficient and effective when we respond calmly and in an unhurried manner than when we explode in unthinking anger.

Anger isn't harmful, it's what we do with anger that causes problems.

It means that if I don't like the way someone is treating me, I can alter their behavior by first changing my own. I can have a positive influence on the situation.

I chose to get angry when you did what you did.

We come to feel as we behave.

We believe that the health of a culture is measured in part by the vigor with which its immune system responds to nonsense.

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

Strong emotions serve only to slow effective action.

Heldmann (1990) writes that most people respond to criticism with behavior they learned in childhood. She calls this behavior "The Four Don'ts": defend, deny, counterattack, and withdraw.

When you or your loved one have an intense reaction to something, chances are good that one of your triggers or "hot buttons" has been pushed.

Minimizing any visible reaction: If the person with BPD knows the button-pushing is having the desired effect—whether consciously or unconsciously—chances are that the behavior will be repeated.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Qui ne peut attaquer le raisonnement, attaque le raisonneur.

El dolor es siempre pregunta, y el placer, respuesta

Stress vindt zijn oorsprong in een bedreigende situatie, met als extreme variant een omgeving waartegenover we volledig weerloos zijn en een waarin we zelf actief kunnen ingrijpen.

The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.

Somehow anything unknown was its own minefield. Waiting for shelling was worse than the shelling itself. Once the attack started, you knew exactly where you stood and could respond. But the waiting. Yes, the waiting was the worst part.

How are you?" she asks. The world's most innocuous question, impossible to answer.