If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
- Topic: Anger, Habits
- Location: Bryce Canyon National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone.
No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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As I walked out the door to my freedom I knew that, if I did not leave all the anger, hatred and resentment behind, I would remain a prisoner.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others—it only changes yours.
Anybody can become angry—that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.
Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.
Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
My anger is more likely to do me more harm than your wrong.
It is a hard thing to leave any deeply routined life, even if you hate it.
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.
The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.
