We are injured by our attitude and response

We are injured and hurt emotionally, not so much by other people or what they say or don't say, but by our own attitude and our own response.

Maxwell Maltz

A New Attitude

Is it possible to have a different attitude in which a new intelligence, not imposed by authority, but born from interest, attention and sensitivity, will emerge and in which body and mind, fused in one single action, are collaborating together?

Vanda Scaravelli in "Awakening the Spine" page 88