Virginia Satir
Psychotherapist, Author
"Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves."
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Response
135 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Gerry Adams
Politician
"If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response."
Stephen Covey
Author, Speaker
"While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses."
Ed Parker
Martial Artist, Author
"Whatever the attitude, so is the response."
Wayne Dyer
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Each time you send love in response to hate, you diffuse the hate."
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"Astonishment is the proper response to reality."
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"Kurt Vonnegut speaking to John Irving while Irving was administering the Heimlich maneuver in response to Vonnegut's uncontrollable coughing..."John,stop- I am not choking. I have emphysema."
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"Grace is the atmosphere created by love that makes faith the only reasonable response"
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"Words have a life; without response they die."
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"To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response."
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"That's your response to everything: drink?" "No, that's my response to nothing."
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"nothing yet. I've been waiting." "for what?" she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him."
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"Humor is an almost physiological response to fear."
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"Love is our response to our highest values."
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"Having an authentic emotional response is always a positive thing."
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"My response is that I love the church."
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"I take the fan response very seriously and respond personally to my fan mail."
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"We can't control what other people do and how they treat us, but we can control our response to them."
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"We have no sense of the collective anymore in America. The response to Katrina was proof positive of that."
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"Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received."
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"The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God."
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"Our response to temptation reveals the substance of our faith."
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"The response to stress is not less time in God's Word, but more."
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"Banning someone for wanting to ban others is an inappropriate response."
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"Sadness isn't a natural response."
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