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• The first education should be the harmonious development of the child's physical, mental and spiritual powers. Providing warm and understanding responses to your children's 'hearts' accomplishes far more than pressuring book knowledge into their minds.

  Dorothy Moore

  Spiritual, Children, Book

  Raymond Moore, Dorothy Moore (1989). “Homestyle Teaching”, W Publishing Group

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• I urge people not to think in terms of "solutions," but in terms of intelligent responses to the quandaries and predicaments that we face. And there are intelligent responses that we can bring forth. But when I hear the word "solution," I always suspect that there's a hidden agenda there. And the hidden agenda is: "Please, can you please tell us how we can keep on living exactly the way we're living now, without having to really change our behavior very much?" And that's sort of what's going on in this country. And it's not going to work.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Country, Intelligent, Thinking

  Source: www.slate.com

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• So much of our politics is stuck in patterns of response that aren't working. When student performance is declining in schools, we implement more controls, more testing, more "accountability," more rigor. We apply even more of those things, from security systems to control of students' behavior through pharmaceutical drugs. That's a situation in which doing is only making things worse. You may have to go through a phase of de-programming, letting go of old habits, coming to stillness, before you can even see what the pattern of action was, and what alternatives there might be.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Letting Go, School, Accountability

  Source: www.mindfulnessbell.org

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• Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature -if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you -know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy.

  Joanne Harris

  Light, Laughing, Literature

  "Chocolat and chips". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2001.

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• Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorbing those experiences and somehow making intuitive responses in future situations that resemble them in some way.

  Daniel Tammet

  Able, Way, Life Is

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• The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living.

  David O. McKay

  Religious, Stars, Kindness

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• Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

  Henri Nouwen

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Spiritual

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.85, Image

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• I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

  Haim Ginott

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons, new chains. Response is out of freedom, hence it brings more freedom. Reaction is out of the past; you act according to your memories, built-in by your experiences, conditionings. You react not to the present, not in the present. You don`t reflect the real situation as it is; you go on interpreting it according to your past, your past experiences. The man who is awake is like a mirror: he reflects that which is the case. HE IS AWAKE.

  Rajneesh

  Memories, Freedom, Real

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• Enlightenment means literally aligning to the Energy of my Source. And genius is only about focusing. Law of Attraction takes care of everything else. Physical humans often want to make enlightenment about finding some process and moving through the process that has been pre-described. But true enlightenment is moving to the rhythm of the internal inspiration that is coming in response to the individual desire. Enlightenment is about allowing my Connection to the Source that is me for the fulfillment of the things that I have individually defined here in my time-space-reality.

  Esther Hicks

  Moving, Inspiration, Mean

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• Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

  Audre Lorde

  Guilt, Action, Defensiveness

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.130, Crossing Press

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• Yesterday you can't alter, but your reaction to yesterday you can. The past you cannot change, but your response to your past you can.

  Max Lucado

  Past, Yesterday, Reactions

  Max Lucado (1999). “When God Whispers Your Name”, p.85, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Using awareness, personal responsibility and inner work to review our unskillful or frightened reactions, we become more adept at turning habitual reactions to balanced responses. These moments are very exciting and gratifying.

  John Earle

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Moments

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• Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.

  Marion Woodman

  Inspirational, Music, Dream

  "Jungian Analysis, Eating Disorders and the ‘Great Work’". Interview with Pythia Peay, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

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• Love is not a feeling, love is a response. Love is an action.

  David Jeremiah

  Love Is, Feelings, Action

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• We are both burdened and blessed by the great responsibility of the will - the power of choice. Our future is determined, in large part, by the choices we make now. We cannot always control our circumstances, but we can and do choose our response to whatever arises. Reclaiming the power of choice, we find the courage to live fully in the world.

  Dan Millman

  Blessed, Responsibility, Choices

  Dan Millman (2001). “The Laws of Spirit: Simple, Powerful Truths for Making Life Work”, p.17, H J Kramer

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• To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

  Albert Einstein

  Witty, Offering, People

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.187, Princeton University Press

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• The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Healing, Health

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 13, 2011

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• I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Life, Art, Prayer

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• We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

  Allan Massie

  Action, Responsible, Circumstances

  Allan Massie (2010). “A Question Of Loyalties”, p.238, Canongate Books

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• I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather....In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Integrity, Weather, Climate

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• I began thinking about why am I constructing almost a shadow father or ghost father in my head into Graham Greene in response to the father who created me? What's going on here? I think a part of my sense is it's every boy's story. When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with.

  Pico Iyer

  Running, Father, Home

  "Writer Pico Iyer". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 17, 2012.

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• Your life experience is unfolding in the precise response to the vibrations that radiate as a result of your thoughts, whether you know it is or not.

  Esther Hicks

  Lost Love, Vibrations, Life Experience

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• It is sometimes said that because of our past we, as a people, expect too much and set our sights too high. That is not the way I see it. Rather it seems to me that throughout my life in politics our ambitions have steadily shrunk. Our response to disappointment has not been to lengthen our stride but to shorten the distance to be covered. But with confidence in ourselves and in our future what a nation we could be!

  Margaret Thatcher

  Disappointment, Distance, Ambition

  The Lady's Not For Turning, delivered 10 October 1980, Conservative Party Conference, Brighton

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