Life

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. - William Osler 

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. - Lin Yutang 

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact. - James Truslow Adams

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us forever! - Thomas Carlyle

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do. - Jose Ortega Gasset 

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. - Harold S. Kushner

To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution. - Joe Cordare

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers. - Erich Fromm

The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry. - John Jensen

If logic tells you that life is a meaningless accident, do not give up on life. Give up on logic. - Shira Milgrom 

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson 

It is not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It is what you do with your life that counts. - Millard Fuller 

A life time is too short for us to spend it accumulating regrets for what we might have done. - Leo Buscaglia

All things in life are temporary. If going well, enjoy it, they will not last forever. If going wrong, don't worry, they can't last long either. - Unknown

Happiness

The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant. - A. Edward Newton

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. - Hosea Ballou

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. - Plutarch

You’re as happy as you allow yourself to be – so why be unhappy? - Marilyn Quayle

If you find some happiness inside yourself, you’ll start finding it in lot of other places too. - Gladiola Montana 

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. - Ashley Montagu 

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself ... True happiness is born of self-reliance. - The Laws Of Manu

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. - Orison Swett Marden

The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts. - Timothy Dwight

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. - Epictetus

There is only one person who could ever make you happy,and that person is you. - David Burns

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. - John Dewey

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. - Hugh Downs

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. - Victor Hugo

Aims - Quotes

A being without an aim in life is like a cork floating upon the water, driven hither and thither by every wind that blows. - Karl G. Maeser

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it. - James Allen

Aiming high in life is your responsibility to yourself. The possibility of failure should not be an excuse not to fulfil that responsibility. - Unknown

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. - Robert Luis Stevenson

An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim. But do not forget that the quality of your aim will depend on the quality of your life. Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others. Whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realized unless you have realized perfection in yourself. - Unknown

If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time. - Zig Ziglar

If you aim low, you hit low. - Gloria Roberson

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. - Henry Wadworth Longfellow

In the long run, men only hit what they aim at. - Henry David Thoreau

It is better to aim high and miss by a mile than to aim for a mud puddle and score a direct hit. - Unknown

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. - Thomas Fuller

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. - Michelangelo

When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull’s-eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim – improve yourself. - Unknown

Who aimeth at the sky shoots higher much than he that means a tree. - George Herbert

Quote Worthy

It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want. - Aristotle

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. - Edward Abbey

Serenity comes not alone by removing the outward causes and occasions of fear, but by the discovery of inward reservoirs to draw upon. - Rufus M. J ones

Non-acceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting.

Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting. - Cheri Huber

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experience. - George Washington

To suggest that we all have a right to be pampered now and again without the usual accompanying feelings of guilt is not asking so much. - Leo Buscaglia

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, – light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. - John Constable

There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go – if there are not doors or windows – he walks through a wall. - Bernard Malamud

Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination. - Elbert Hubbard

Trivia

More Trivia for you. However, I can't guarantee the accuracy of all the points. :-)

Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down.

For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off. 

Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.

Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers. That is why it is found in some medicines.

The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.

If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.

When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight. 

Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams. 

In ancient times, strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.

The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.

Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.

The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year.

The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.

The University of Alaska spans four time zones.

Aggression - Quotes

Aggression is a biological response to a life-threatening situation. When there is an immediate threat to life, aggressive energy provides the power to do what needs to be done. Aggression in normal daily interactions is like activating a smoke alarm when there is no smoke. Actually, it is worse. The ringing alarm would be annoying, but it would do no harm. Aggression at best is annoying, and at worst, itself, becomes life threatening. - Gwen Randall-Young

Aggression is an effective form of energy when focused on the right direction and shielded from all others. - John Driscoll

Aggression is different from anger. Anger is an emotion; aggression is a behaviour. There are better ways to deal with anger than behaving aggressively. Aggressive talk, gestures or behaviours belong to the old way of being. Once we tune in to a higher level of consciousness, aggression is as unnecessary as is the hand-held plough in modern day agriculture. - Gwen Randall-Young

Aggression is never as effective as assertiveness. - Robert M Sherfield

Aggression is never to be encouraged in a leader: it implies emotional immaturity and a loss of control and will quickly lose a leader respect and create a climate of fear and blame. - Deborah Gray

Aggression is not, in and of itself, a bad thing. In many ways legitimate aggression contributes vitally to our lives. In aggression we find our drives for life, career, social contact, self-definition, and service. - Douglas Gillette 

Aggression is not universal; indeed, if we judge by the number of species which are non-aggressive and those which are, the scales might balance in favour of a greater number of non-aggressors, denying the classic aphorism that nature is red in tooth and claw. The big fish eat the little fish, it is true, but elephants, moose, camels, alpacas, llamas, deer, elk, horses, mules, buffalo, hippos and giraffes eat leaves and grass. - Sebastian Sisti

Aggression is part of the masculine design, we are hardwired for it … Little girls do not invent games where large numbers of people die, where bloodshed is a prerequisite for having fun. Hockey, for example, was not a feminine creation. Nor was boxing. A boy wants to attack something – and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee. - John Eldredge

Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy. -Benjamin Tucker

Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos. - Anne Campbell

Aggression only moves in one direction – it creates more aggression. - Margaret J. Wheatley

Aggression, like every other part of human behaviour we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem! - Steven Pinker

By reacting to aggression with aggression we lose the opportunity to spiritually benefit from the experience. - Kyriacos C. Markides

Childhood aggression is one of the best-known social predictors of future maladjustment. - Dorothy Lynn Espelage

Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. - Bette Davis

Evolutionary theories, including socio-biology, account for aggression by noting that those most aggressive have an increased likelihood of getting food and mating. Hence the aggressive survive and aggressive genes get passed on to succeeding generations. That is, inasmuch as aggression is a strategy that "works" to perpetuate the genetic pool, it is part of the behavioural repertoire of organisms. - Bernard Weiner

If aggression is innate then all cultures should be equally aggressive, but this is obviously not the case. - Sally Gadsdon

Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for aggression had to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment. - Sigmund Freud

The central lesson of our time is that the appetite of aggression is never satisfied. To withdraw from one battlefield means only to prepare for the next. - Ross Gregory & Richard Balkin

The first major classroom for the teaching and learning of aggression is the home. In the home, 4 percent of parents physically abuse their children (e.g., burn, fracture, shake to the point of concussion), and 90 percent make at least occasional (and sometimes frequent) use of corporal punishment (e.g., spank, hit, slap). What happens when an adult hits a child? The child ceases the behaviour(s) that resulted in the punishment. Punishment results in the cessation of the aversive event and, thus negatively reinforced, the adult is now more likely to use corporal punishment in response to the child's next transgression. Not only has the adult learned the correctness of the adage "might makes right," so too has the child. - Arnold P. Goldstein

The human capacity for aggression is staggering. It has been estimated that 58 million humans were killed by other humans (an average of nearly one person per minute) during the 125-year period ending with World War II. War, homicide, riots, family violence, assassination, rape, assault, forcible robbery, and other violent acts offer sad testimony to the realities of human aggression. - Dennis coon & John O. Mitterer

The men who are to protect the community against violent aggression easily turn into the most dangerous aggressors. They transgress their mandate. They misuse their power for the oppression of those whom they were expected to defend against oppression. The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty. - Ludwig von Mises

The most important distinction between aggression and assertion is its intent. During assertion, we move ourselves toward another; during aggression, we move ourselves against another. - Georgia Lanoil

The vast majority of the peoples of the world are against war and against aggression. If they make their wishes known and effective, war can be stopped. It all depends on whether they are willing to make the effort necessary for the purpose. For, that it will require an effort, no one who considers the history of the world on these subjects can doubt. - Robert Cecil

To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace. - Morihei Ueshiba

Wars of hate, aggression, and aggrandizement are only productive of more hate and more human suffering. -Joseph Lewis

We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression. - B. F. Skinner

Food For Thought

Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. - Russell Lynes

No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are. - Eric Hoffer

A certain compensation balances every gift and every defect. For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something… As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him… Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults…. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Alcohol - Quotes

A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head. - Austin O’Malley

A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before. - Raymond Chandler

Alcohol addiction stunts the spiritual, emotional and mental growth of a person. For the alcoholic, they literally stop wanting to learn or advance themselves on any level other than the one they are already on. This is why many alcoholics are emotionally stunted and are unable to contain their emotions. Many alcoholics believe that once they are sober for a few months they are cured. Nothing could be further from the truth. An alcoholic is not cured just because they stopped drinking. Remember, "the drinking" for the alcoholic is only a symptom of an underlying problem within him or her. Total sobriety takes more than abstinence –  it takes a spiritual and mental awareness through healing and growth. I have never yet read about, or heard of a case where an alcoholic stopped drinking, but then years later they were able to drink one or two drinks and stop. - Angie Lewis

Alcohol is among humankind's oldest pleasures, so highly regarded that the ancient Greeks and Romans called wine a ‘gift from the gods.’ - Nigel Denby

Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar. - Willa Cather

Alcoholism is a disease of the whole person. - Maurice Gelinas

Alcoholism is a well-documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief. - David Cook

Alcoholism is not a symptom of underlying problems. It is an illness in and by itself, producing its own symptoms. Before the onset of the disease alcoholism, the excessive drinking of alcoholic liquor generally is symptomatic of underlying problems. Once the line has been crossed and the drinker has become an alcoholic drinker, his drinking is then symptomatic of that illness. - Maurice Gelinas

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a man: because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast. - William Penn

An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work. - George Washington

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them. - Robin Williams

Because alcohol is encouraged by our culture, we get the idea that it isn't dangerous. However, alcohol is the most potent and most toxic of the legal psychoactive drugs. - Beverly A. Potter & Sebastian Orfali

Beware of Drunkenness, lest all good men beware of you. - Wellins Calcott

Drink does not drown Care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster. - Benjamin Franklin

Drunkenness being nothing but a voluntary madness, it emboldens men to undertake all sorts of mischief; it both irritates wickedness and discovers it; it does not only make men vicious, but shows them to be so; and the end of it is either shame or repentance. - Wellins Calcott

Drunkenness is temporary suicide. - Bertrand Russell

For most normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship and colourful imagination. It means release from care, boredom and worry. It is joyous intimacy with friends and a feeling that life is good. But not so with us in those last days of heavy drinking. - Unknown

He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice. - Wellins Calcott

I don’t say that the drunk man is the real man, and the sober man merely a shell. But you find out something different about people when they're drunk. Of course, you sometimes find that they're not different at all – that you merely get more of the same, perhaps said rather more loudly and incoherently, but basically the same. - Kingsley Amis

If alcoholism is a disease, it is a strange one, because the alcoholic is the most direct cause of his or her own sickness. If alcoholism is not a disease, then what else might it be?... If alcoholism is defined as a personal failure or a moral weakness, alcoholics are less likely to be viewed with sympathy and compassion. They might be admonished to quit drinking, be put in prison, or be punished in some other way. These responses to their alcoholism would be administered primarily by the legal system rather than the health care system, as medical interventions are not designed to remedy moral failings. - Wayne Weiten 

In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink any more if I was dead. - Eric Clapton

Let us be clear and concise on this point: Alcoholism is a disease. We can never be cured of alcoholism, but we can arrest the disease and pull it up on its tracks. There is no such thing as a cured alcoholic or an ex-alcoholic. They simply don't exist ... the recovering alcoholic is only ever one drink away from relapse. - Tyrone Patrick Fahey

Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past. - Gene Wolfe

Most recovering alcoholics in early sobriety have trouble believing they'll ever have fun again but if they hang in there, it’s amazing how good life can become. - Elizabeth Zelvin

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane. Respect rather than fear. There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

One key symptom of alcoholism is that the individual comes to need a drink for every mood – one to calm down, one to perk up, one to celebrate, one to deal with disappointment, and so on. - Phyllis A. Balch

One of the most important facts to remember about alcoholism is its progression. Alcoholism begins in an early stage that looks nothing at all like a life-threatening disease, proceeds into a middle stage where problems begin to appear and intensify, and gradually advances into the late, degenerative stages of obvious physiological dependence, physical and psychological deterioration, and loss of control. - William F. Asbury

Physicians who are familiar with alcoholism agree there is no such thing as making a normal drinker out of an alcoholic. - Unknown

The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if they were still going on, contemporary even with the future as if they were about to happen again. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The first step toward recovery from alcoholism is the recognition that a problem exists. Once the problem drinker breaks through denial and admits to having a problem, a range of treatment options become available. - Jeffrey S. Nevid

The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. Many pursue it into the gates of insanity or death. - Unknown

The point in regard to alcohol is simple enough. It is a poison, and a poison which, like other poisons, has certain uses; but the limitations in the use of alcohol should be as strict as the limitations in the use of any other kind of poison. Moreover, it is an insidious poison in that it produces effects which seem to have only one antidote – alcohol again. - Alexander Alison

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find. - Caroline Knapp

To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house. - Publilius Syrus

To understand why alcoholism is a disease, it is important to know about the neurological effects of alcohol on the brain. Simply put, heavy drinking over time causes changes in neurotransmitter activity that the brain must adapt to. In people physically predisposed to alcoholism, this adaptation eventually turns into a fixed craving as the body finds it cannot live without the effects of alcohol. Something that started out voluntarily and enjoyable turns into something more serious – a physical dependence that can cause horrible withdrawal symptoms. This explains why alcoholics cannot just quit drinking like their non-addicted counterparts can. Thus, it is not the behaviour of drinking that is defined as an illness. It is only when the craving to drink becomes involuntary that alcoholism can be thought of as a disease. - Maria Gifford

Where Drunkenness reigns, there Reason is an exile, virtue a stranger, God an enemy, blasphemy is wit, Oaths are rhetoric, and secrets are proclamations. - Wellins Calcott

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea. - Thomas Fuller 

Some Jokes

Proud Man

              Lawyer: You say you robbed the grocery store because you were practically starving. Then why didn’t you steal some food rather than clean out the cash register?

              Client: Sir, I’m a proud man and I always pay for whatever I eat.

Nice, But…

              Said one friend to another as they were viewing a small oil painting in a local museum, “It’s a nicely done portrait, I think, but I doubt it will ever get stolen.”

The Reporter

              A car was involved in an accident in a street. As expected, a large crowd gathered.

              A newspaper reporter anxious to get his story could not get near the car. Being a clever sort, he started shouting loudly, “Let me through! Let me through! I am the son of the victim.”

              The crowd made way for him. Lying in front of the car was a donkey.

Miss Jones

              After the examination, the doctor looked at the patient with a bright smile and announced cheerfully: “Mrs. Jones, I have wonderful news for you!”

              “Excuse me,” said the patient, “it’s Miss Jones.”

              “In that case,” replied the doctor, “I have some bad news for you.”

Suffering - Quotes

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. - Seneca

From what is dear to us, suffering arises. - Unknown

If you cling you will suffer. If you let go of that clinging, that suffering disappears. In dependence on clinging, a certain kind of suffering arises. When that dependent condition for suffering goes away, that suffering goes away as well. - Gil Fronsdal

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others. - Thich Nhat Hanh

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our character, purifies our heart, expands our soul, and makes us more tender and charitable. - Orson Whitney 

Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. - Helen Keller

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. - Edwin Hubble Chapin 

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. - Thich Nhat Hanh

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. - Aristotle

Suffering follows the evil act as the wheel of the cart follows the foot of the ox that draws it. - Unknown

Suffering is a disease and can therefore be cured completely. - The Buddha

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. - Horatius

Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting; it is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life. - Nisargadatta Maharaj

Suffering, I was beginning to think, was essential to a good life, and as inextricable from such a life as bliss. It's a great enhancer. It might last a minute, or a month, but eventually it subsides, and when it does, something else takes its place, and maybe that thing is a greater space. For happiness. Each time I encountered suffering, I believe that I grew, and further defined my capacities--not just my physical ones, but my interior ones as well, for contentment, friendship, or any other human experience. - Lance Armstrong

The Buddha called suffering a holy truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your suffering and let it reveal to you the way to peace. - Unknown

The cosmos is indifferent to human suffering, and, it is sheer folly to expect security or eternal happiness while one sojourns in a cosmos subject to constant change. All along it is suffering. Therefore, detachment is the only way to put an end to suffering. -  K. Sri Dhammananda

The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it. - Eckhart Tolle

The man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. - Michel Montaigne

The reward of suffering is experience. - Aeschylus

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy. - Thich Nhat Hanh

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. - Thomas Merton

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality. - Seneca

We can put an end to our suffering just by realizing that our suffering is not worth suffering for. - Thich Nhat Hanh

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others. - William Somerset Maugham

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. - Jim Rohn

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending. - Thich Nhat Hanh

When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.-  Thich Nhat Hanh

Success - Quotes

Believing in yourself is the first secret to success. - Unknown

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. - Charles Kendall Adams

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals. - Brian Tracy

One of the most important keys to success is having the discipline to do what you know you should do, even when you don’t feel like doing it. - Unknown

Success in life comes when you simply refuse to give up, with goals so strong that obstacles, failure, and loss only act as motivation. - Unknown

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning. - Denis Waitley

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take. - Christopher Reeve 

Success: Peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. - John Wooden

Success isn't overnight. It's when every day you get a little better than the day before. it all adds up. - Unknown

Success will never be a big step in the future; success is a small step taken just now. - Jonatan Martensson

Successful men usually snatch success from seeming failure. If they know there is such a word as defeat they will not admit it. They may be whipped, but they are not aware of it. That is why they succeed. - A. P. Gouthey

Successful people do what they need to do, whether they feel like it or not. - Unknown

The twin killers of success are impatience and greed. - Unknown

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature , study and practice. - Henry Ward Beecher

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. - Paul Sweeney

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success. - Orison Swett Marden

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has succeeded. - Mack Douglas

The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed. Most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success. - Michael Korda

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it. - Ray Kroc

No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavours and make success impossible. - Baudjuin

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear. - Dan Millman 

What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace. - Paul Coelho 

Ambition - Quotes

A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it. - Henry Ward Beecher

A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. - Marcus Aurelius

A slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many masters as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortune. - Bruyere

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. - William Congreve

All ambition owes its attractiveness to effort and desire rather than success. We find the object to which we attached so much value is in itself of little value whatever; it is our effort to obtain it which envalues it. - Anthony Lisle

Ambition begets vexations. - Singhalese Proverb

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. - Sallust

Ambition by itself never gets anywhere until it forms a partnership with work. - James Garfield 

Ambition can creep as well as soar. - Edmund Burke

Ambition destroys its possessor. - Hebrew Proverb

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame, a grave to rest in, and a fading name! - William Winter

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires. - Benjamin Franklin

Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others. - Susan Sontag

Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. - Unknown

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. - Emil Cioran 

Ambition is a good servant but a bad master. - Unknown

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. - Thomas Otway

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme, to be sublimely great, or to be nothing. - Thomas Southerne

Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky. - Unknown

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth: she begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end. Ambition, in fact is the avarice of power. - C. C Colton

Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back. - Ben Jonson

Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people – which is what I think it does mean – then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one. - C. S. Lewis

Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities. - Frank Herbert 

An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims. - Christian Nestell Bovee

An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge the chasms between itself and eminent success by the most faithful and minute performances of duty. - Henry Ward Beecher

Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity. - Norman MacDonald 

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss. - Niccolo Machiavelli

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will. - Sallust

It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world. - Leonardo da Vinci

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain

Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with great ambitions. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My ambition is handicapped by my laziness. - Charles Bukowski

Never doubt what small men will do for great power. - Paolo Bacigalupi 

Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition. - Terry Josephson

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them – that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting. - Lucy Maud Montgomery

Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, – it steals away the freshness of life, – it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, – it shuts our souls to our own youth, – and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labour of our raciest years. - Edward Bulwer Lytton

Seek happiness in tranquillity and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries. - Mary Shelley

Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots? - Seneca

The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honour, as the miser all to money. - Johann Kaspar Lavater

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious. - Luc de Clapiers

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. - William Shakespeare

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher. - Henry van Dyke 

There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions. - Michael Moorcock

They that soar too high, often fall hard. - William Penn

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. - Marcus Fabius Quintilian

We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement. - Lucy Maud Montgomery

With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose. - Norman MacDonald

Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a “success”. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Quote Worthy

It’s easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. - Tom Brokaw

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. - Bonnie Prudden

Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. - Emory Austin

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. - Bill Bradley

You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself. - James Whittaker

It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity. - George Matthew Adams

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. - Marcus Aurelius

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. - Benjamin Franklin

Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are. - Charles De Lint

If you don’t know where you are going. How can you expect to get there? - Basil S. Walsh

An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself. - Minna Antrim

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. - Leo Buscaglia 

Touch is the magic wand of intimacy. Love is keeping in touch. - Denis Waitley

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. - Ellen Parr

Spiritual Thoughts

Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seed of his being out of which his circumstance grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself. - Anonymous

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found – in himself. - Erich Fromm

Every man is where he is by the law of his being; the thoughts which he has built into his character have brought him there, and in the arrangement of his life there is no element of chance, but all result of a law which cannot err. - Anonymous

Food For Thought

The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fate may play, we march always in the ranks of honor. - Winston Churchill

To comprehend a man’s life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolutely follows the best. - Unknown

The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honour. But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents; someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. - Unknown

Anger - Quotes

A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control. - Proverbs 29:11

A man can’t eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul. - Garrison Keillor

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air. - Henry Ward Beecher

A mild answer calms wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. - Proberbs 15:1 

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough. - Bruce Lee

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long. - Wilson Mizner

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. - Publilius Syrus

An angry man is always a stupid man. - Chinua Achebe

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. - Cato The Elder

And there is nothing more dangerous in this world, in any world, than someone calm, clear and angry. - Audrey Hart

Anger arises for specific and understandable reasons, just like any other emotions, such as happiness and sadness. Emotions are an essential part of being a human being, so if your goal is to completely eliminate anger from your life, forget it! First of all, this would be an impossible task. Second, you wouldn't want to do that, even if you could, any more than you would want to eliminate love, joy, or fear. All emotions have their proper place in a man's life; the experience of emotion is what makes life rich. And there are times when anger is an appropriate reaction to events and people. - Thomas Harbin

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can’t last. - Greg Evans

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance. - Pythagoras

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. - Robert Ingersoll

Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It's like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces it with emotional poison. - Frank Lawlis

Anger comes sometimes upon us, but we go oftener to it, and, instead of rejecting it, we invite it: Yet it is a vice that carries with it neither pleasure nor profit, neither honour nor security. - Wellins Calcott

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. - Albert Einstein

Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not. In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control of your behaviour. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane. - Wayne W. Dyer

Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind. - Unknown

Anger is a form of madness. The words we apply to it show that human beings have long recognized its character. We still speak of angry people as mad. We sometimes say that they are "furious" or "in a fury." Some people are led by anger into the most violent excesses. Anger is one of the commonest causes of murder and it often leads to the infliction of blows, mental or physical, that might easily occasion murder. Oftener still it commits murder without loss of life, by doing to minds and souls mischief irreparable. In one respect anger is like drunkenness. It tends to destroy prudence. Where the intoxication of anger is complete, prudence disappears altogether. Then the way is clear for infamy. There are some people who, when they have once yielded to anger, lose all control. They snatch any weapon within reach. If they cannot strike with things they will strike with words, often far more terrible in their effect. They will make statements that can never be atoned for, that will sting and burn to the end of life. - John Daniel Barry

Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal mechanism directing it, you don't have a rocket. You have a bomb. - Gil Schwartz

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. - Louis L ‘Amour.

Anger is a prelude to courage. - Eric Hoffer

Anger is a self-imposed prison that keeps you caged with your past wounds and trauma, robbing you of joy in the now. - Unknown

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to. - Harriet Lerner

Anger is a valid emotion. It’s only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do. - Ellen Hopkins

Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned. - Dean Koontz

Anger is a weed; hate is the tree. - Saint Augustine of Hippo

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. - Robert Ingersoll

Anger is a wound gone mad. - Vanna Bonta

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

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp’s nest. - Pope Paul Vi  

Anger is brief madness. - Horace

Anger is energy, and energy must be transferred into activity. Anger comes from our passions, but it becomes sin when it is destructive, either to others or to ourselves. Pent-up anger will either explode uncontrollably or eat away at our hearts and souls until it takes up all of our interior space. Unless and until we deal with our anger, there is no room in us for anything else. - G. Porter Taylor

Anger is fuel. We feel it and we want to do something. Hit someone, break something, throw a fit, smash a fist into the wall, tell those bastards. But we are nice people, and what we do with our anger is stuff it, deny it, bury it, block it, hide it, lie about it, medicate it, muffle it, ignore it. We do everything but listen to it. Anger is meant to be listened to. Anger is a voice, a shout, a plea, a demand … We are meant to use anger as a fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us. - Julia Cameron

Anger is generally seen as an unwelcome presence in our midst, however natural it may be. Although each person, and each society, is charged with how anger is to be appropriately channelled, the denial of anger, or its continuous repression, is a deep source of our psychopathology and will invariably seek its expression in a less healthful fashion. - James Hollis

Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It’s like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice. - Jim Butcher

Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Anger is like a volcano. Once it erupts, you can’t control it. - E. Fehmidakhan

Anger is most constructive when it is used to solve a problem, rather than merely to prove a point or vent your feelings. - Beverly Engel

Anger is neither legitimate nor illegitimate, meaningful nor pointless. Anger simply is. To ask, "Is my anger legitimate?" is similar to asking, "Do I have the right to be thirsty? After all, I just had a glass of water fifteen minutes ago. Surely my thirst is not legitimate. And besides, what's the point of getting thirsty when I can't get anything to drink now, anyway?" Anger is something we feel. It exists for a reason and always deserves our respect and attention. We all have a right to everything we feel – and certainly our anger is no exception. - Harriet Goldhor Lerner

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one. - Benjamin Franklin

Anger is not a sinful emotion. But how we act when we are angry may well be a sin. - Doris Moreland Jones

Anger is not the opposite of love, for the opposite of love is indifference. To be angry is to care tremendously. It is a signal that your caring extends beyond polite conversation, and that you are willing to risk a confrontation to share how you feel. - Doris Moreland Jones

Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it. - English Proverb

Anger is one of the commonest causes of murder and it often leads to the infliction of blows, mental or physical, that might easily occasion murder. Oftener still it commits murder without loss of life, by doing to minds and souls mischief irreparable. There are some people who, when they have once yielded to anger, lose all control. They snatch any weapon within reach. If they cannot strike with things they will strike with words, often far more terrible in their effect. - John Daniel Barry

Anger is one of the most destructive forces that men and women permit themselves to indulge. It is closely related to fear, but the conspicuous difference is that fear seems to be freezing or paralyzing in its nature, while anger is heating and consuming. - Walter Matthews

Anger is only a natural reaction; one of the mind’s ways of reacting to things that it perceives to be wrong. While anger can sometimes lead people to do shocking things, it can also be an instinct to show people that something isn’t right. - Unknown

Anger is only one letter short of danger. - Unknown

Anger is our reaction to the violation of our boundaries. - Kathleen Dowling Singh

Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature. - Christopher Paolini

Anger is sometimes unavoidable, as when we witness or hear of some outrageous act of injustice or cruelty. But if we must have it, let it be quick and soon over. For when it remains in us it is we who suffer, and not our adversary. It unnerves our hand, blinds our vision, impairs our judgment, and when it leaps to vengeance invariably overleaps, bringing to us regret and remorse in lieu of satisfaction. - Frank Crane

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent’s blade. - Patricia Briggs

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. - Carl Sandburg

Anger is what makes a clear mind seem clouded. - Kazi Shams

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger. - David McKay

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are. - Cherie Carter-Scott

Anger should never be an overnight guest. - Neal Maxwell

Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth. - Cato The Elder

Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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. - The Buddha

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. - Seneca

Anger, in general, is healthy. Just like sadness or happiness, it's a normal emotion. Where people get into trouble is when anger becomes a behaviour that is physically, verbally or emotionally inappropriate. - Carole D. Stovall

Angry people are not always wise. - Jane Austen

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

As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall. - James Vila Blake

As anger is a passion, it is to be ruled; as it is a weak passion, he is weak who rules it not. - James Vila Blake

At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled. - Marshall B. Rosenberg

At the moment you become angry, you tend to believe that your misery has been created by another person. You blame him or her for all your suffering. But by looking deeply, you may realize that the seed of anger in you is the main cause of your suffering. Many other people, confronted with the same situation, would not get angry like you. They hear the same words, they see the same situation, and yet they are able to stay calm and not be carried away. Why do you get angry so easily? You may get angry very easily because your seed of anger is too strong. And because you have not practiced the methods for taking good care of your anger, the seed of anger has been watered too often in the past. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury. - Francis Quarles

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. - Maya Angelou

By all means give vent to your anger, let it out in non-destructive ways – if you are still deciding to have it. But begin to think of yourself as someone who can learn to think new thoughts when you are frustrated, so that the immobilizing anger can be replaced by more fulfilling emotions. Annoyance, irritation, and disappointment are feelings that you will very likely continue to experience, since the world will never be the way you want it. But anger, that hurtful emotional response to obstacles, can be eliminated. - Wayne W. Dyer

Do not allow yourself to be blinded by fear and anger. Everything is only as it is. - Yuki Urushibara

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. - Socrates

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you. - Joel Osteen

Every present anger derives from past weakness. - Glen Duncan

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. - Alfred A. Montapert

Every time you get upset at something, ask yourself if you were to die tomorrow, was it worth wasting your time being angry? - Robert Tew

Explain your anger instead of expressing it, and you will find solutions instead of arguments. - Ritu Ghatourey

Explain your anger, don’t express it, and you will immediately open the door to solutions instead of arguments. - Unknown

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger. - Aristotle

He that strives not to stem his anger's tide, does a wild horse without a bridle ride. - Colley Cibber

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing. - Sallust

He who angers you conquers you. - Elizabeth Kenny 

Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. - Mitch Albom

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. - The Buddha

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. - Marcus Aurelius

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world. - Mahatma Gandhi

If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct. - Confucius

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? - Sydney J. Harris

If anger is not restrained, it is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. - Seneca

If the angry and revengeful person would only govern his passions and light the lamp of affection in his heart, that it might stream out in his features and actions, he would soon discover a wide difference in his communion with the world. A kind word, an obliging action, even if it be a trifling one, has a power superior to the harp of David in calming the billows of the soul. - Nicias Ballard Cooksey

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. - Unknown

If you are right then there is no need to get angry, and if you are wrong, then you don't have any right to get angry. - Unknown

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. - Epictetus

If you kick a stone in anger you will hurt your foot. - Korean Proverb

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. - The Buddha

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action. - Pythagoras

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go. - Bertrand Russell

It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either. - Wayne Dyer

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses. - William Arthur Ward

It’s important for people to keep in mind that while anger is a feeling that everybody has, aggression is a choice. - Carole D. Stovall

It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health. - Joyce Meyer

Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. - Mitch Albom

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. - James Thurber

Like all passions, anger has degrees, ascending from slight vexation through deepening clouds to rage, and finally to fury, which is a black and horrible tempest. In its mid-region, where it is neither too little to be motive nor too furious to be ungovernable, it has usefulness. For all feeling is as fuel, and where there is none life has no fire, and then no flame of ascent. - James Vila Blake

Many circumstances arise in the experience of every one to excite anger, and doubtless the average man and woman has little idea of its destructive nature. No matter how great the aggravation no one is justified in indulging fits of anger. It never helps, but always hurts. Rage, fury, hate, wrath and revenge are extremely destructive. They not only injure the one against whom they are hurled, but react back against the individual who indulges them by exciting trouble and disease of various kinds in the body. They are intensely consuming, and the action in the body is very rapid. Anger often results in complications which may bring misery and unhappiness into the lives of relatives and friends. The conditions resulting from fits of anger may continue throughout the life of all the individuals affected by it. - Walter Matthews

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up. Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not. - Henry Ward Beecher

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people. - Mario Puzo

Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it. Don’t allow his anger to become your anger. - Bohdi Sanders

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. - George Jean Nathan

Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes, is sure to hit ourselves at last. - William Penn

Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savour to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back – in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you. - Frederick Buechner

Others don’t make us angry. There is no force involved. Becoming angry is a conscious choice, a decision. Therefore, we can make the choice not to become angry. We choose! - Lynn G. Robbins

Pent-up anger will either explode uncontrollably or eat away at our hearts and souls until it takes up all of our interior space. Unless and until we deal with our anger, there is no room in us for anything else. - G. Porter Taylor

People who habitually yield to anger are likely to acquire an erroneous notion of their own power. For there is no doubt that in anger there is a good deal of power. It often gets what it wants, like every form of self-assertion and tyranny. And what it loses may not be apparent on the surface. Nevertheless what it loses may be so vast as to be incalculable. For, great as the power of anger may be in some cases, it is pitifully small compared with the power of its opposite quality, self-control. And just as self-control may often seem to be weakness, anger may seem to be strength. The truth is, of course, that real strength lies not in anger, but in the control of anger. - John Daniel Barry

People with a healthy attitude concerning anger understand the difference between constructive and destructive anger. Anger is constructive when your anger expression affirms and acknowledges your integrity and boundaries without intending to threaten or violate another person's integrity or boundaries. Destructive anger is when your expression of anger is a defensive and rigid attempt to protect your vulnerability and boundaries by intending to threaten or violate another's integrity and boundaries (whether the intention is conscious or not). If you have a healthy relationship with anger, you have learned how to transform anger from a weapon that wounds others and yourself to a tool that promotes understanding and healthy change in relationships. Anger is most constructive when it is used to solve a problem, rather than merely to prove a point or vent your feelings. - Beverly Engel

Postpone today's anger until tomorrow. - Tagalog Proverb

Sometimes anger is referred to as "temper." And among many people to have a temper is considered creditable. It is in some way associated with power. Here is a common confusion of thought. Good qualities associated with a bad quality are likely to confer the bad quality on a false character. On the other hand, bad qualities associated with a good quality may completely destroy respect for the good quality. The pride that people take in having a temper often leads them to shameful indulgence in anger. And repeated indulgence tends to destroy the capacity for self-control. As a matter of fact, nearly everyone has a capacity for temper, that is, for anger. It is associated with all our deepest qualities, with egotism, the instinct for self-preservation and for self-assertion. Anger, after all, is very largely an arrogant and violent assertion of oneself. It is a gross expression of tyranny. - John Daniel Barry

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done. - Lee Ang

Stay away from anger. It hurts only you and nobody else. If you are right, then there is no need to get angry. If you are wrong, then you don't have any right to get angry. - Buddhist Quote

The anger of the prudent never shows. - Burmese Proverb

The greatest remedy for anger is delay. - Seneca

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. - John Dryden 

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of living in the present. - Barbara De Angelis 

The right to be angry does not mean the right to be cruel. - Unknown

The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered. - George Eliot

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. - Plato

There is no psychological reward for anger. Anger is debilitating. In the physiological realm, it can produce hypertension, ulcers, rashes, heart palpitations, insomnia, fatigue and even heart disease. In the psychological sense, anger breaks down love relationships, interferes with communication, leads to guilt and depression and generally just gets in your way. You may be sceptical, since you've always heard that expressing your anger is healthier than keeping it bottled up inside of you. Yes, the expression of anger is indeed a healthier alternative than suppressing it. But there is an even healthier alternative than suppressing it – not having the anger at all. In this case you won't be confronted with the dilemma of whether to let it out or keep it in. - Wayne W. Dyer

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. - Alexander Pope

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better. - Tryon Edwards

You will not be punished for your anger. You will be punished by your anger. - Buddha

We occasionally hear of "righteous anger." We mean anger that is justified by circumstances. But, in a sense, all anger is righteous. That is, all anger justifies itself in the mind of the person who feels the anger. In another sense, there is no such thing as righteous anger. For no anger can really justify itself. - John Daniel Barry

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin

When anger is not trampling roughshod through our nervous system, it is sitting sullenly in some unspecified internal organ. "She's got a lot of anger in her," people will say (it nestles, presumably, somewhere in the gut), or, "He's a deeply angry man" (as opposed, presumably, to a superficially angry one). If anger isn't released, it "turns inward" and metamorphoses into another creature altogether. - Carol Tavris

When anger rises, think of the consequences. - Confucius

When anger walks it is strongest; let it rest and it gets weak. - Edward Counsel

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred. - Thomas Jefferson

When faced with anger, senseless drama, spiteful criticisms, and misguided opinions, walking away is the best way to stand up for yourself. To respond with anger is an endorsement of their attitude. - Dodinsky

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life. - Marcus Aurelius

When we are angry, our anger is our very self. To suppress or chase away our anger is to suppress or chase away ourselves. When anger is born, we can be aware that anger is an energy in us, and we can change that energy into another kind of energy. If we want to transform it, first we have to know how to accept it. - Thich Nhat Hanh

When you are tempted to get angry and feel frustrated with those around you, take a moment to think about your own faults and shortcomings. This will help you to be patient with others. - Unknown

When you have been done an injustice, anger flares up before you have a chance to understand what has happened. It's as though someone else is looking out for you and letting you know immediately that you have been wronged. Anger gives you the impetus you need to change conditions that need to be changed. In this way, anger is like a dark guardian angel, a daemonic force – a daemon is an unnamed but felt invisible presence – that offers guidance and spiritual support. - Thomas Moore

When you look deeply into  your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity for accepting and having compassion for them is there. - Thich Nhat Hanh

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing. - Octavia E. Butler

Whenever anger comes up, take out a mirror and look at yourself. When you are angry, you are not very beautiful. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath. - Eckhart Tolle

Whining is anger through a small opening. - Stuart Smalley

You can learn to handle your anger well. First, recognize that anger is a normal part of life. Everybody feels angry from time to time. Like all feelings, anger is neither good nor bad, it just is. - Ronald & Patricia Potter-Efron

Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skilfulness. - Thich Nhat Hanh