Reaction Quotes

It was the look on her face when she said it. And how much she meant it. It suddenly made everything seem like it really was. I felt terrible. Just terrible.

~ Stephen Chbosky

Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Think before you act. Reason before you react.

~ Kemi Sogunle

The author indicts our culture's rush toward efficiency, speed, quantification, and distraction and counters with the value of the time and attention required to find the best words and images and then hold them together in ways that illuminate. This, she diagnoses, is now wildly countercultural. It is inefficient. Its value is not readily quantifiable. Its utility is intangible.

~ Cherie Harder

Mindfulness & Meditation help focus on the moment while at the same time knowing we cannot capture that moment, we are in a flow of moments we let flow. We can watch moments in detail without being attached to them. Non-attachment to past & future stems from this practice. Worry about past or future is wasted energy, however we can observe the past & learn from it without agonising over it & trust ourselves to handle the future better. We can celebrate the opportunity to grow as we gain understanding from observation & experience. We can watch ourselves & avoid being caught up in over-reactions. I am loved, right now, in this moment, I love, and am part of love itself. I am aware of myself at every level - the mental slowing gracefully to sense the spiritual within & all around, and the physical being still, or moving. I tune in to the flow of life in my body & the flow of life everywhere. I circulate love with each breath - from without to within & from within to all around.

~ Jay Woodman

No one else “makes” us do anything. They can’t make us nag them, or make us angry, or make us have to strike out at them, or make us drink alcohol, or make us yell at them, or anything else. We are responsible for our choices, including our responses and reactions.

~ Cathy Burnham Martin

Between an action and reaction, between a gesture and its consequences, everybody agrees that there is an exact relationship, but not necessarily a proportionate one.

~ Filippo Bologna

. . . most martial artists want to know how A technique is done, A seasoned Sensei will demonstrate why

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Having no need to judge, control, react, so forgiveness does not even arise.

~ Jay Woodman

Forgiveness is a choice. You control how you respond to something or someone. You can't change things that happened in the past, but you can decide how you let them affect you.

~ Amalie Howard

I know why she cried like that. She cried because she wasn't finished grieving the loss of me. When someone has an exaggerated emotional reaction to something in the present, it's usually because they haven't resolved something in their past.

~ Kate Mcgahan

... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Don't wait for people to dress your bed for you, do it yourself and you'll be glad to sleep and feel relaxed.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Wishes and wants do not transform a person, actions and reactions do so! Show the world your plans by the actions you take progressively and consistently.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When listening to the lightning storms in your area on a standard AM radio, you will hear a sound like bacon frying and this is the electromagnetic energy that the storm is generating. Plants react to this energy and may show vigorous growth during lightning seasons.

~ Steven Magee

Secret elisions within families are suddenly revealed by self-execution, and just as quickly sheeted with excuses, blame, and counter-blame. But sense is made of the world only through relationship between action and reaction, symptom and cause. No change is possible without analysis of accountability.

~ Antonella Gambotto-Burke

How you react to the issue, IS the issue.

~ Habib Sadeghi

Ben Franklin advises his grandson not to let even the American Revolution interrupt his studies, urging of young adulthood, This is the time of life in which you are to lay the foundations of your future improvement and of your importance among men. If this season is neglected, it will be like cutting off the spring from the year.

~ H.w. Brands

... And when the time comes to choose yet another dream, I shall smile knowing that I had a life with no less challenges than others, but I chose to respond to them with love.

~ Raphael Zernoff

There are some people that should stay quiet, because they understand. As there are those that should stay quiet, because they don't understand. Some things are better left unsaid or voiced.

~ Anthony Liccione

Action triggers reaction. An object somehow responds when we observe it.We just assume that we do objective. In fact, unconsciously we only want to see some parts of the object which do not evoke the bitter memories of our past.

~ Toba Beta

To react, is to be A slave to someone else's actions. Sometimes, A warrior is faced with the decision to strike pre-emptively, trusting his intuition, wisdom and years of training

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

No effect occurs without cause, and no cause occurs without effect. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought flows unnoticed throughout the universe.

~ Suzy Kassem

Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

When you go against the flow of nature and betray the spiritual laws existing within, there will always be a negative reaction.

~ Suzy Kassem

Happiness comes from action, not from reaction. It is a feeling, not the success, but the perception.

~ Debasish Mridha

For every forward action, there is an equally important forward reaction.

~ Lorii Myers

She felt sad, but she hadn't cried all day. She thought that crying would actually be a good thing right now. It seemed normal to react. Whoever Martin had been, he had probably been a normal person. He was probably having a normal reaction right now, and she had caused it. She felt bad for confusing him. She thought it might be fair to cry for him. But it wasn’t until she thought of the mother cows in the pasture the day after the weaning, wandering around singly in the naked sunshine, still trying to call out in their hoarse, broken voices for the young ones that were still missing, that she was finally able to make herself cry—a little bit for all of the calves, but mostly for herself.

~ Alexandra Kleeman

A leaders gentle reaction and sound instruction are their greatest weapons.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

I know I should have been grateful because it was a very nice thing to do. But I wasn't grateful. I wasn't grateful at all. Don't get me wrong. I acted like I was. But I wasn't. To tell you the truth, I was starting to get mad.

~ Stephen Chbosky

I just reminded myself that she didn't say it mean. She wasn't making fun of me. She wasn't comparing. Or criticizing.

~ Stephen Chbosky

We try so hard to hide everything we're really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it's somehow wrong to have natural reactions to life.

~ Colleen Hoover

There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than action; innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) 'thou shalt not' predominates unduly over 'thou shalt.

~ John Stuart Mill

People don’t die so the universe can gauge your reaction. They die because life is finite.

~ Dan Groat

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

~ Ronald A. Heifetz

React with how can I help you versus how can I hurt you.

~ Ken Poirot

There's no right or wrong way to hurt. Everybody does it their own way. It's how we respond to pain that tells the kind of person we are.

~ Bethany Crandell

Our reactions to events is directly promotional to their importance in our life.

~ Sukant Ratnakar

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