Buddhaghosa·430 ADHolding 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.
Thich Nhat Hanh·2005When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness
Epictetus·105 AD·NicopolisMan is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
Baltasar Gracián·1647·SpainNever open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
Eleanor Roosevelt·1960When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Marcus Aurelius·180 ADNot to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love.
Ralph Waldo Emerson·1842You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.
Confucius·5th century BC·Qufu, ChinaIf a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Epictetus·135 ADMen are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.
Maimonides·1170Excessive eating is like a deadly poison to the body and is a principal cause of all illness.