Favorite from September 2015

It is how you react to what happens to you that matters!

"We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us — how we can take it, what we do with it — and that is what really counts in the end."
- Joseph Fort Newton

Would you react this way?

From the song 'Please Don't Leave Me' by Pink:

I don't know if I can yell any louder,
How many times have I kicked you out of here
Or said something insulting?
I can be so mean when I wanna be,
I am capable of really anything,
I can cut you into pieces,
When my heart is broken.
...
How did I become so obnoxious?
What is it with you that makes me act like this?
I've never been this nasty.
Can't you tell that this is all just a contest?
The one that wins will be the one that hits the hardest.
But baby I don't mean it,
I mean it, I promise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eocCPDxKq1o

Sometimes, the reactions of others can cause us to have negative thoughts and react in a certain way....

How would you react if you think you are right, but everyone (a crowd) believed you were wrong?
Clip from the movie 'Gladiator' showing the roar of a crowd:
https://youtu.be/X1UmHfWCw-4

#MainMessageForToday
Thoughts (thinking) and emotions are linked although people sometimes cry or laugh or show other emotions without thinking. Thinking can make something seem worse than it is and therefore cause us to react in an emotional way. 

"How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation."
― Judith Orloff

"We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us — how we can take it, what we do with it — and that is what really counts in the end."
- Joseph Fort Newton

Theme for the week 9/13 - 9/19: Managing Your Emotions, inspired by this quote from last week:
"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."
- Epictetus

Is it best to remain calm and resist lashing out when someone mistreats you?

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."
- Epictetus

"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours."
- Wayne Dyer

"No matter how negative someone is to you, do not throw their behavior back in their face. To all the mathematicians out there, I do not care which way you look at it, but two negatives do not make a positive."
- Unknown

#MainMessageForToday
To return what someone dishes out to you or not to return what someone dishes out to you, that is the question....

"The more anger you hold in your heart towards the past, the less capable you are of loving the present."
- Unknown

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."
- Epictetus

"Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life."
- Wade Boggs

MainMessageForToday
How you feel about what happened to you (your reaction) tells whether you accept it or not and determines how much you will learn from it.