Response Quotes

“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.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

“When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“...here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“Sex was a practiced art to him. Each move calculated. His brain always worked while he performed, his body seducing his prey with ease, noting each response of his target. But in one moment, everything had changed. She swept him into a tidal wave of pure sensation, and he willingly let go and let her take him with her.”
― Christine Feehan, Water Bound

“Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she should have never left me here, where her friends might look to me for help.
Finally she looked at me. Her eyes were hard, but she'd let no tears fall. "This is where we blame those who are responsible, Cooper, she told me, her voice very soft. "The colemongers, and the bought Dogs at Tradesmen's kennel. We'll leave an offering for him with the Black God when all this is done, and we'll occupy ourselves with tearing these colemongers apart. all right? We put grief aside for now.”
― Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound

“Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.

But what about your true name?

It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.

Ever wonder why?

Your true name has the secret power to call you.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“for to have a deep attachment for a person (or a place or thing) is to have taken them as the terminating object of our instinctual responses."
Separation anxiety. International Journal of Psycho-Analysts, XLI, 1-25 (1959(”
― John Bowlby

“DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though they have to hide in shame. DID develops as a response to extreme trauma that occurs at an early age and usually over an extended period of time.”
― Deborah Bray Haddock, The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook

“I know why she cried like that. She cried because she wasn't finished grieving the loss of me. When someone has an exaggerated emotional reaction to something in the present, it's usually because they haven't resolved something in their past.”
― Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal

“Response is absolutely designed for always showing up late.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“The Drowned Cities hadn’t always been broken. People broke it. First they called people traitors and said they didn’t belong. Said these people were good and those people were evil, and it kept going, because people always responded, and pretty soon the place was a roaring hell because no one took responsibility for what they did, and how it would drive others to respond.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, The Drowned Cities

“He knew today that his life was forever changed in that one moment and he was clueless as to why or how it was. Never in his life had he ever felt that quick response to anyone. Breathless and unable to look away from her, like if he did she would disappear.”
― PJ Fiala

“Synchronicity occurs at the intersection of your awareness, response, perspective, and action.”
― Andrea Goeglein

“For the multifold secret to work only one thing is necessary. You must take action. You must give. You must share. You must act with abandon. Send out waves of love and kindness into the world and then simply wait for the response. Or, better yet, continue to send out more waves. Why wait? The response will come. Keep sending waves and enjoy the reaction.”
― John Kremer

“Situasi akan selalu berubah, namun yang terpenting adalah respon Anda terhadap setiap situasi yang Anda hadapi.”
― Robert Siahaan

“Knowing how to lose is a very important skill to have. It changes the way that you respond to things and assists you with keeping your stress levels down when difficult times are present.”
― Robin S. Baker

“There was a massive emergency response to hurricane Ian’s aftermath in Florida.”
― Steven Magee

“Florida withholding the number of dead bodies found by emergency response crews was cruel to those with missing relatives.”
― Steven Magee

“Functional neurological and psychosomatic disorders are often a manifestation of a maladaptive response to the mistakes made by the human system of perception.”
― Suzanne O'Sullivan, The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

“We adjust our behavior to reflect our expectations.”
― Anna Moore Bradfield

“I particularly liked this quote from Frankl's book: "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.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

“When the injustice on earth considered as justice, expect a strong response from heaven.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“In an irrational situation, rationality dictates an irrational response”
― Ryan Gelpke, We Tragic Few

“Bronva challenges the illusion of anonymous searches by offering a platform where user queries remain confidential. It's a response to the realization that even reputed search engines were compromising user privacy. With Bronva, your searches are your own, leaving no digital footprint behind.”
― James William Steven Parker

“,,The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness (...) Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried".

,,Filk wisdom is filled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told".

,,The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma".

,,When the truth is finally recognized, survivors can begin their recovery".”
― Judith Herman

“There are a colorful rainbow of events that make up one sentence in every narrative. It takes the literary in its entirety to paint the whole picture.”
― Deanna L. Lawlis

“Do not expect the sudden response from the God.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“The naive ambition when unexpressed,
is like a confession regressed,
as of a Failure in 'Failure Thwarting'
awaiting success to come out of waiting,
until the proactive responses are Blessed!”
― Priyavrat Thareja

“In all things, let our relationship with God be a response to His love.”
― Caleb Hyers, 195 Thoughts Worth Thinking About