There’s nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

Always remember that your calmness under fire is your best defense in any argument or discussion.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

Get mad, then get over it.

One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

I don’t think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It’s to do with how much anger is in you.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

I don’t think I get angry.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.