Reacting Quotes

• We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Positivity, Suffering

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.112, Penguin

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• Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

  Kenny Loggins

  Forgiveness, Freedom, Real

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can't change a negative situation with bad feelings. If you keep reacting negatively, your bad feelings will magnify and multiply the negativity.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Negativity, Feelings, Negative

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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  How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jan 08, 2011

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• This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically. If you can truly know yourself, you will begin the journey of transformation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Success, Journey, Keys

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  I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it

  Macklemore

  Life, Rap, Vipassana

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• Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

  Jewel

  Knowing

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• The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Military, Intelligent, Enemy

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• Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

  Hans Selye

  Inspirational, Stress, Anxiety

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• Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The economy is not the problem, how people respond is the problem!

  Grant Cardone

  Inspirational, People, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from May 19, 2016

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• Humour allows us to see that ultimately things don't make sense. The only thing that truly makes sense is letting go of anything we continue to hold on to. Our ego-mind and emotions are a dramatic illusion. Of course, we all feel that they're real: my drama, your drama, our confrontations. We create these elaborate scenarios and then react to them. But there is nothing really happening outside our mind! This is karma's cosmic joke. You can laugh about the irony of this, or you can stick with your scenario. It's your choice.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Karma, Letting Go, Laughter

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• Rather than just reacting to the waves of things that come, ride them with deliberate intention.

  Craig Groeschel

  Wave, Intention, Deliberate

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• Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

  Thomas Merton

  Death, Wisdom, Heart

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

  Enrico Fermi

  Numbers, Ties, Machines

  Enrico Fermi, James W. Cronin (2004). “Fermi Remembered”, p.75, University of Chicago Press

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• Remember this: Anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Twitter post from Mar 21, 2016

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• First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

  Neil LaBute

  Men, Feminist, Feminism

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• Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.

  Steve Ballmer

  Years, Ideas, People

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• There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.

  Merle Shain

  Inspirational, Life, Play

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• Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Positive, Faith, Christian

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.

  Ma Jaya

  Simple, Practice, Helping

  Ma Jaya Bhagavati (2011). “The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom From The Patterns That Bind You”, p.85, BookBaby

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• If you don't look at yourself and evaluate it, you instead see how the world's reacting to it.

  Nick Offerman

  Looks, World, Look At Yourself

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.

  Ben Casnocha

  Goal, Long, Limits

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• Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.

  Benjamin Carson

  Effort, Risk, Should

  "Take the Risk: Learning to Identify, Choose, and Live with Acceptable Risk". Book by Ben Carson and Gregg Lewis, 2008.

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• The decision to overlook the seeming inequities of life instead of reacting to them is a choice.

  David Hawkins

  Choices, Decision, Seeming

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