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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. -Golda Meir.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. -Golda Meir.
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.
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as read more
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been read more
Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; norcan the dead ever be brought back to life. Hence the enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. This is the way to keep a country at peace and an army intact.
Fear not the anger of the wise to raise;
Those best can fear reproof who merit praise.
Fear not the anger of the wise to raise;
Those best can fear reproof who merit praise.
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. -Booker T. Washington.
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. -Booker T. Washington.
Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.
Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.
Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one.
Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one.