- “Mindfulness won’t ensure you’ll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness won’t enable you to bypass your feelings of anger or hurt either. But it may help you see the conflict in a new way, one that allows you to break through old patterns.” ― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
- “Its not the falling down that counts but what you do next that counts the most. Don’t spend your time on your knees if you have fallen, instead get up and dust your knees clean and walk!” ― Matt Broadway-Horner, Managing Depression with CBT for Dummies
- “Find answers in your weakness and surprise in your strength and always remember the golden rule every failure has HOPES” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” ― Roy T. Bennett
- “I choose to be at peace. I look at others with the eyes of compassion, I forgive them and bless them with peace. I let go of anger and judgment. I am at peace.” ― Eileen Anglin
- “Some people are as angry as they seem to be only because it’s the safest place to hide from more pain.” ― Ashly Lorenzana
- “If you don’t make a few ememies now and then, you’re a coward-or worse. Besides, it as worth it to see his reaction. Oh, he was angry!- Angela to Eragon” ― Christopher Paolini, Inheritance
- “A wise man is someone who knows how to convert obstacles into resources.” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “I hate hateAnd I love loveBut when I lack loveSometimes I hateAnd I’m angryBut even thenI don’t believe what I sayBecause I hopeThat one dayLove will fill my life” ― Jazalyn, Rose: Future Heart
- “Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you.” ― Jason Mraz
- “God doesn’t give us pain to make us strong. He gives us strength to look inside ourselves and realize we are not innocent victims. When you learn humility, you are no longer a victim because a humble man is not self-absorbed. He seeks to understand why people are hurting him and takes responsibility for his part in their grief. Humility doesn’t dwell with anger or pride, and neither does God.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “The thing about our choices is that after we have made them, they turn around and make us.” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “Doing Kashaya[anger, pride, deceit and greed] means to stumble. If artadhyan (adverse meditation) and raudradhyan (wrathful meditation) occurs, it is called stumbling.” ― Dada Bhagwan
- “It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,’ she said.It seems to be true,’ he admitted. ‘I wonder why.’Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems are as nothing to the sun.” ― David Gemmell, Sword in the Storm
- Not being outraged by anything is a superpower. James Pierce
- Hatred is, indeed, never appeased by hatred in this world. It is appeased only by loving-kindness. This is an ancient law. The Dhammapada
- “The only way to be content in life is to make sure your NEED don’t become GREED.” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “To dislike something with egoism has been referred to as renunciation (tyaag). Whereas if dislike arises for something whilst in an egoless state, that is considered as saiyam (a state in which there is absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed and attachment-abhorrence).” ― Dada Bhagwan, Death: Before, During After…
- The best answer for anger is silence. Paulo Coelho
- Tears of despair can be fuel. Thunders of anger can be light. Maxime Lagacé
- Holding grudges is stupid, unproductive and poisonous. Only fools hold on. The wise let go. Maxime Lagacé
- “Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.” ― Lolly Daskal, Thoughts Spoken From The Heart
- The smarter you get, the more you realize anger is not worth it. Maxime Lagacé
- “The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people; everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- Try to avoid making important decisions when you’re angry. Acknowledge the emotion. Recognize that it clouds your judgement. Remember that angry people tend to sacrifice the long-term good in response to short-term provocation. @TheStoicEmperor
- Be aware of whom the anger is hurting. Usually it’s yourself first and foremost. I now mostly feel sorry for angry people. Naval Ravikant
- It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses. William Arthur Ward
- “I need to ask, are you afraid of spiders?”Nicholas blinked, suddenly caught off guard, “Yes, I’m afraid of spiders.””Were you always?””What are you, a psychiatrist?”Pritam took a breath. He could feel Laine’s eyes on him, appraising his line of questioning.”Is it possible that the trauma of losing your best friend as a child and the trauma of losing your wife as an adult and the trauma of seeing Laine’s husband take his life in front of you just recently…” Pritam shrugged and raised his palms, “You see where I’m going?”Nicholas looked at Laine. She watched back. Her gray eyes missed nothing.”Sure,” agreed Nicholas, standing. “And my sister’s nuts, too, and we both like imagining that little white dogs are big nasty spiders because our daddy died and we never got enough cuddles.””Your father died?” asked Laine. “When?””Who cares?”Pritam sighed. “You must see this from our point of – “”I’d love to!” snapped Nicholas. “I’d love to see it from your point of view, because mine is not that much fun! It’s insane! It’s insane that I see dead people, Pritam! It’s insane that this,” he flicked out the sardonyx necklace,”stopped me from kidnapping a little girl!””That’s what you believe,” Pritam said carefully.”That’s what I fucking believe!” Nicholas stabbed his finger through the air at the dead bird talisman lying slack on the coffee table.” ― Stephen M. Irwin, The Dead Path
- “Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people…but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
- When you think you’ve been injured, apply this rule: If the community isn’t injured by it, neither am I. And if it is, anger is not the answer. Show the offender where he went wrong. Marcus Aurelius