Any person capable of angering you becomes your master, He can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him
- Epictetus
We are all in control of our own emotions. One of the strongest emotions we have to deal with is anger. Anger is usually a response to a threat to our ego. Anger is usually what we use to try and control something that we can’t. When we get angry, we’re failing to control the one thing we truly can control — ourselves. We’re giving control of our emotions to someone else.
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First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
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Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.
- Mark Twain
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
- Ambrose Bierce
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
- Mahatma Gandhi
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
- Buddha
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
- Maya Angelou
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
- Mark Twain
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
- Aristotle
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
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
- Mahatma Gandhi
It is not the strength of the body that matters, but the strength of the spirit.
- J. R. R. Tolkien, - Gandalf (Fictional character - The Lord of the Rings)
Everything is within your power, And your power is within you.
- Janice Trachtman
No matter what life throws at you – what you make out of it is up to you.
- Sadhguru