Reactions Quotes

“To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“You have the ability to choose your reactions.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ

“When the anger is intense, the person with Asperger's syndrome may be in a 'blind rage' and unable to see the signals indicating that it would be appropriate to stop. Feelings of anger can also be in response in situations where we would expect other emotions. I have noted that sadness may be expressed as anger.”
― Tony Attwood

“The only people that can't handle the truth are those that suffer so much anxiety that they will live in denial, in order to prevent their illusion from being destroyed and feeling more anxiety.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don't trip...allowing them to fester. These are random tests of your conviction and determination. Large or small, your reaction to such intrusions is a defining moment for which no one else, but you, can mitigate.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

“Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange.”
― Robert Kegan

“If you are upset with another’s words towards you; be cautious of your reactions, for you are only meant to be a sounding-board for his soul”
― Jeremy Aldana

“Can an absence of action be construed as a negative action?”
― Tamar Cohen, The Mistress's Revenge

“We question ourselves through others by way of stories, advice, and gestures; and we receive our answers form listening to others reactions”
― Jeremy Aldana

“Do not rely on the outer world as your measuring stick for your own spiritual growth. Rely on your response to the outer world to determine how much you have grown.”
― Bashar

“You have a choice to not add to the negativity. Remember, two negatives don't make a right.”
― Akiroq Brost

“Russian Dolls: The more we stay layered up, the more we stay reactive. Instead of healing, our hardnesses bump into one another. We knock each other off balance, intentionally or not. That might sometimes peel away a little paint, making a crack in an outer façade. But those cracks allow light and insights in. And out.”
― Helen S. Rosenau, The Messy Joys of Being Human: A Guide to Risking Change and Becoming Happier

“Every day try to convert your reactions to responses. Reactions are always instinctive, whereas responses are always well thought of, just and right to save a situation from going out of hands, to avoid cracks in relationship, to avoid taking decisions in anger, anxiety, stress or hurry.”
― Abhishek Ratna, small wins BIG SUCCESS: A handbook for exemplary success in post Covid19 Outbreak Era

“Our times and our thoughts shape us. The world is in a constant and ceaseless state of motion and transformation. The only constant is that the universe we occupy today will undergo change based in part because of our personal actions and omissions and partially because the random volitions of the world’s flux are impervious to our meager intentions. We are more reactors than we are enactors of our daily shape testing experiences. Necessity demands that we interpret our physical environment and assign meaning to the mandala of experiences that resonate with our emotional cordage.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Don't react. Respond instead. Exercise some forethought into what you're about to say and do.”
― Akiroq Brost

“What are we basing our reaction on? Is it something that actually happened? Or, is it based on reality not meeting our expectations? Are we always right about everything? Do all of our perceptions have to be so rigid? Or can we look at something without expectation, and without judgment?”
― Akiroq Brost

“Let you remain close to your source of being & core by being simple in your most of the actions, reactions & thoughts. Let you reflect respect towards your creator by being harmonious, consistent & patient with the way things are in your world. Let you become more happy & peaceful by accepting everything as it is without wishing it were different. Let you restore your relations with the immortal & universe by becoming compassionate toward yourself & everything around yourself. Stay Real, Humble & Committed!”
― Rajesh Goyal

“No matter how bad or sad I feel, I can switch how I feel in any given moment. That's our power. It's in our reactions. Once I start noticing myself slipping into misery, I can end it right there! I do it by seeing all the love already present in my life. I do it by seeing all the abundance of things to be grateful for in my life. Once I get back to feeling good about myself again, more things will start to appear in my life.”
― Jason Micheal Ratliff

“It took several months of being on a gluten free diet before I started to see chronic fatigue reactions to pizza, tempura and fruit drinks that would last several hours.”
― Steven Magee

“Whimsy is the answer to tears.”
― Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers

“You can't control your emotions, but you can control how you express them.”
― Akiroq Brost

“The only thing a person has full power over is themselves and how they react to others, and we don’t often have that.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Walk Your Path: A Magical Awakening

“A seemingly sudden reaction is just the last act in an invisible emotional chain.”
― Luigina Sgarro

“We may not always be able to control what we are, but we can control what we do. Everyone has a dark side, but we have a choice not to act on it.”
― Akiroq Brost

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― Fern Fabric

“Some only live on your reactions, let them starve.”
― Christine E. Szymanski

“We have the right to accept or reject people’s behavior without having to offer an explanation. If they do not feel the need to justify their actions, then there is no need for us to justify our reactions.”
― Nadine Sadaka Boulos

“There are strings in the human heart that had best not be vibrated.”
― Charles Dickens