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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 a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had read more
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one.
Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one.
I am a danger to myself if I get angry.
I am a danger to myself if I get angry.
Hate corrodes the vessel that carries it.
Hate corrodes the vessel that carries it.
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better. -Tryon Edwards.
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better. -Tryon Edwards.
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. -Buddha.
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.
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.