"Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes."--Sophocles
"A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis."--Ralph W. Sockman "Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."--Baruch Spinoza
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned."--Buddha
"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."--Confucius "To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable."--Barry Goldwater
"He who angers you conquers you."--Elizabeth Kenny
"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched."--George Jean Nathan
"Patience is never more important than when you are at the edge of losing it."--O. A. Battista
"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow."--Chinese proverb
"Hatreds do not ever cease in this world by hating, but by love; this is an eternal truth."--The Dhammapada, 1:5
"Anger is throwing dust into the wind only for it to return to hurt your eyes."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"If you are maligned by the world, do not harbor bad thoughts against it."--Sammaparibbajaniya Sutta
"Overcome anger by love, overcome evil by good. Overcome the miser by giving, overcome the liar by truth."--The Dhammapada, 17:3
"Who ranks as the highest? One who acts properly. A recluse who has a pure mind and a traveller who has renounced all. One who is never angry and who never responds to others' anger."--Dhammapada: The Highest, verses 388-389
"Don't give in to anger under any circumstances."--The Dhammapada, Anger, verse 222
"Anger corrupts, as weeds choke a field. Be free of anger, and honor those who are also free."--Dhammapada: Desires, verse 357
"Anger is like drinking salt water for thirst, it only increases the thirst."--Caine, Kung Fu television show "Dhyana is retaining one's tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse conditions present themselves one after another."--Daisetz T. Suzuk
"Those who suffer from an exaggerated sense of their own ability and accomplishment are continually subject to frustration, disappointment, and rage when reality intrudes and the world doesn't validate their idealized view of themselves."--The Fourteenth Dalai Lama
"Human anger is fueled by the selfish self, futilely striving for happiness by pursuing what it wants, avoiding what it fears, and asserting, promoting, and defending itself."--Ron Leifer
"It is essential to become fully aware of the feelings of frustration, vulnerability, helplessness, and fear. Anger involves the denial of these feelings. Healing anger requires opening to them, becoming aware of them."--Ron Leifer
"Avoid all wrath."--Pythagoras "Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad."--Euripides, Antigone
"When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty."--Epictetus, Discourses
"The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'"--Plato, Laws
"Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions."--Aristotle, Virtues and Vices
"Be slow to anger, slow to blame,
And slow to plead thy cause.
But swift to speak of any gain
That gives thy friend applause."
--Mary Whitcher, Shaker member
