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reaction
«It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!»
Author: Anthony de Mello
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
delight, hostilities, hostility, Human heart, liberation, longs, mystery, reaction
«My first reaction was that it seems to me they are fixin' something that ain't broke. I never saw anything wrong with it to start with.»
«Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.»
Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Actor, Governor)
| About:
Helpfulness,
Learning
| Keywords:
giving up, helplessness, quitting, reaction, response
«My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw, After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live»
«In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
automatic, calculated, contrast, forgiving, irreversibility, natural action, natural process, predicted, reaction, retains, the Action, transgression
«One who does all work as an offering to the Lord, abandoning attachment to the results, is as untouched by sin [or Karmic reaction] as a lotus leaf is untouched by water.»
«More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
common good, faced, individualism, more and more, reaction
«I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.»
