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.
Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others—it only changes yours.
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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.
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.
There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
No man should be angry with what is true.
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. All that is not a true change will disappear in the future society.
True life is lived with tiny changes occur.
