A Quote by Lisa Kleypas

When something terrible happens, how you react determines who you are from then on. — © Lisa Kleypas
When something terrible happens, how you react determines who you are from then on.
How you think determines how you act. How you act in turn determines how others react to you.
The thing is, the more you fear death, the more you die. So it really doesn't pay off. It's a fear of the dark. Like any experience in life, you wonder, Well, if this ever happens, how would I react? and then it happens, and only then do you know.
It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.
Acting is reacting. That's when acting is great - when you say something, somebody said something, they make a face, they pose, they use something physical, then you react to that, then they react to you.
Unfortunately, race still determines too much, often determines where people live, determines what kind of education in their public schools they can get, and, yes, it determines how they're treated in the criminal justice system.
No one makes you feel anything. It is how you react and respond that determines your emotions.
The law of property determines who owns something, but the market determines how it will be used.
The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.
It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts.
A plate of food hits the table, lands right in front of you. One of two things happens. Either you sit up and look at it and react to it, or nothing happens. If nothing happens then that restaurant is stuck in mediocrity forever.
It's my personal opinion, and I'm not espousing it to anybody else, I think your immune system and how healthy you are determines how you react to any excess of any kind.
It's my personal opinion and I'm not espousing it to anybody else, I think your immune system and how healthy you are determines how you react to any excess of any kind.
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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