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We cannot control other people and their actions but we can control how we act and react to them.
— Elizabeth George
Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
— Deepak Chopra
For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.
— Dennis Prager
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.
— Lou Holtz
It is not the person who insults or attacks you who torments your mind, but the view you take of these things.
— Epictetus
Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.
— Amelia Earhart
In politics, sometimes the best measure of success is the reaction of your enemies.
— Jerry Falwell, Jr.
How you react to things you can't control will many times determine your stress level. People who regularly get upset over small things are easily frustrated and highly stressed. People who shrug those things off are much happier.
— Joyce Meyer
Back home, this Catholic kid was accustomed to a Protestant culture's condescension, but here he could see for himself the world-historic glories of Catholicism... [A Catholic American soldier's reaction to seeing St. Peter's Basilica during WWII.]
— James Carroll
Fear is a self-protection we use to insulate ourselves from hurt by pulling back. Anger is self-protection we use to insulate ourselves from hurt by striking out.
— James MacDonald
Then making the noise usually written "Tut-tut," he
— Dorothy Sayers