How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the cause of it.
- Topic: Anger
- Location: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
What we do now echoes in eternity.
It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth.
Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
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More on Anger
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.
No man should be angry with what is true.
Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others—it only changes yours.
My anger is more likely to do me more harm than your wrong.
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.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.
