Echoes

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.

Resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself or others.

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

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Be detached from desire your whole life long.

An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquility.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Boredom is the root of all evil — the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Accept everything just the way it is.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

There are some men who expose themselves to damnation so foolishly by avarice, by brutality, by debauches, by violence, by excesses, by blasphemies! ...it is always a great folly for a man to expose himself to damnation... He must despise desire and its kingdom, and aspire to that kingdom of love in which all the subjects breathe nothing but love, and desire nothing but the benefits of love.

Not to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend — nay are dragged — towards evil.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

The best fighter is never angry.