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Welcome to these Respond Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational Attitude
How you respond to the challenge in the second half
will determine what you become after the game,
whether you are a winner or a loser.
- Lou Holtz
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
- Lao Tzu
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience,
independent will and creative imagination.
These give us the ultimate human freedom...
The power to choose, to respond, to change.
- Stephen Covey
Respond to emergencies in a casual manner.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Life is a gift, and I try to respond with grace and courtesy.
- Maya Angelou
Life is ten percent what happens to you
and ninety percent how you respond to it.
- Lou Holtz
We receive this food in gratitude to all beings
Who have helped to bring it to our table,
And vow to respond in turn to those in need
With wisdom and compassion.
- Buddhist Blessing
Most people think that anger is an instinctive response,
and that some people were just born with the temperament
to get angrier faster than others.
That statement is only half right.
Anger is an instinctive response.
We respond to an affront with anger essentially instantaneously -
much too quickly for conscious thought to be called upon.
But the instinct of the anger response
can be trained through conscious repetition,
visualization, and coaching.
Visualization is seeing the event
we desire to master in our mind's eye.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible
in bright moments as well as in trouble,
we cannot fully respond to its consolations
because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
- Helen Keller
During his training, a baseball player strives
to make each swing better than the last.
The repetition of a faulty swing would be worse than useless.
It would ingrain bad habits.
The same is true of emotional responses.
If we allow ourselves to continue to have the same angry responses,
we just entrench our anger habit.
But if we strive - through consciousness, visualization, and coaching -
to moderate our anger response,
over time, we can train ourselves to respond
to events as we choose - without anger.
You can't magically be free from anger tomorrow,
but you can put yourself on your own training program
that will reduce the frequency and intensity
of your anger response day by day, year by year.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The holiday season promotes
a heightened sense of community.
It draws our chins up and
helps us look above and over
the limiting fence of our own events,
activities and preoccupations.
The opportunity for a heroic gesture
can tap you quietly on the shoulder
in the midst of a holiday bustle.
If you are attentive,
you will notice the gentle touch
and will be able to respond. Remember...
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with.
It responds like a snail to our impatience,
then it races like a gazelle when you can't catch a breath.
- the movie Simon Birch
Have you ever hugged a tree?
Hug a tree, and one day you will come to know
that it is not only that
you have hugged the tree
but that the tree also responds,
the tree also hugs you.
- Osho
Having seen the devastation of war first hand,
Eisenhower came both to despise war
and to see that "war settles nothing."
On the other hand, Ike was certainly no peacenik.
He understood that, in an emergency,
action must be met with reaction.
When truly necessary, violence met with violence -
but never hate responded to with hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother
why the bride changed her mind.
What do you mean? responded her mother.
Well, she went down the aisle with one man,
and came back with another.
- Anonymous
Nuts.
- General Anthony Clement McAuliffe
responding to a German demand to surrender his
101st Airborne Division in Belgium during World War II.
Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Anonymous
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
I know why families were created with all their imperfections.
They humanize you.
They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally,
so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
- Anais Nin
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world,
to fill our hearts with hatred
instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world!
- Robert E. Lee
Prayer:
Lord God, Holy Spirit, Giver of All Light,
Bless and Keep All Those of This World.
Grant Us Your Peace, Your Light, Your Love.
Grant Us Complete Renewal of Body, Mind and Spirit -
Continual Rebirth in Newness of Life.
Let Your Light Shine Upon Us and Be Gracious to Us.
Grant to Each and Every One of Us:
Health, Comfort, Joy, Peace Within Ourselves,
Peace Within Our Families, Peace Within Our Communities,
and Peace among All those This World.
Grant That I May Be an Instrument of Thy Peace.
Grant That I May Radiate Thy Peace, Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Comfort, Thy Joy,
to All Those Around Me and All Those in My Thoughts
This Day and Ever More. AMEN.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us all take more responsibility,
not only for ourselves and our families, but
for our communities and our country.
- William J. Clinton
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other,
the whole world loses some of its radiance.
- Anatole Broyard
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
Could we see when and where we are to meet again,
we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
- Ouida
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
True friends are appreciative and never demanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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