Harold Kushner Quotes

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond.

You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.

I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it

I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.

What I can control is how I react. I can't control anything else.

Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life that you can't control - but you can control how you respond.

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.

I've learned to let things roll off my back.

If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.

I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.

I'm an emotional person, but it is not my helplessness.

How do I control my emotions? How do I stop getting angry so often, or how do I stop being sad? And I think there's a really important distinction to understand is that you can't completely control your emotions. What you control is your reaction to your own emotions. And a lot of people don't ever make that separation for what goes on with them.

The essential idea of Stoicism in my interpretation is, you don't control the world around you, you control how you respond. At 19, that's very empowering.

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

I don't really let the pressure get to me.

I don't really feel any pressure. I can control only what I can control.

The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.

Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.

Our attitudes cannot stop our feelings, but they can keep our feelings from stopping us.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

You can't control the things that happen to you, but you can control the way you feel about them.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.