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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for read more
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. Clarendon -Thomas read more
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. Clarendon -Thomas Fuller.
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed read more
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will
control you.
[Lat., Ira furor brevis est: read more
Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will
control you.
[Lat., Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret
imperat.]
Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare read more
Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression, and humor prevents them from being consumed by their fury.
Anger assists hands however weak.
[Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]
Anger assists hands however weak.
[Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you read more
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.
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your
wrath: Neither give place to read more
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your
wrath: Neither give place to the devil.