Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now and what's coming up in me in response to what's happening right now. Importantly, this is in the service of being able to choose wisely so that I avoid complicating my own life and the lives of others.
Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
There are only 2 responses to the world, fear or love. Your life depends on which one you choose.
You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.
The economy is not the problem, how people respond is the problem!
Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.
One theory says that if you treat people well, you're more likely to encourage them to do what you want, making all the effort pay off. Do this, get that. Another one, which I prefer, is that you might consider treating people with kindness merely because you can. Regardless of what they choose to do in response, this is what you choose to do. Because you can.
Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do.
The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.
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.
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.
The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.
To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.
Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.
Here is the crux of the matter, the distilled essence, the only thing you need to remember: When considering whether to say yes or no, you must choose the response that feels like freedom. Period.
Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in this broken world.
I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.
Whatever the attitude, so is the response.
Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice.
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