To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.
More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.
- Topic: Anger, Strength
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.
Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.
Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!
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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.
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
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.
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.
Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.
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.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Who works with all the strength he can Shall never die in debt to man.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
