The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
- Topic: Anger, Pain
- Location: Grand Cayman
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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No man should be angry with what is true.
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
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.
Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.
My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and . . . each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.