Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
Never try to have the last word. You might get it.
Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.
Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities - those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness.
The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all.
In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. _x000D_ _x000D_ When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. _x000D_ _x000D_ The practice is always to go back to oneself.
Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.
It's never what people do that makes us angry; it's what we tell ourselves about what they did.
Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.
A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten.
Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.
The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.
Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts.
People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.
When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.
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