Your life is a mirror. Life gives us not what we want. Life gives us who we are
It isn't what happens to us in life that creates our joy, but rather how we respond to what happens in our lives.
I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it
Do you respond to life or are you merely reacting to it?
Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.
Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. ... It's really just a response to life.
Life reflects, life resounds, life echoes whatsoever you throw at life.
The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a direct and immediate response to life.
I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.
Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.
