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.

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.

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

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

Accept everything just the way it is.

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

Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you.

I pity the poor fellow who is so soft and flabby that he must always have "an atmosphere of good feeling" around him before he can do his work. There are such men. And in the end, unless they obtain enough mental and moral hardiness to lift them out of their soft reliance on "feeling," they are failures. Not only are they business failures; they are character failures also; it is as if their bones never attained a sufficient degree of hardness to enable them to stand on their own feet. There is altogether too much reliance on good feeling in our business organizations. People have too great a fondness for working with the people they like. In the end it spoils a good many valuable qualities.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Everything that happens is either endurable or not. If it's endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining. If it's unendurable . . . then stop complaining. Your destruction will mean its end as well.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

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

The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.

The quality I look for most is optimism: especially optimism in the face of reverses and apparent defeat.

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

What cannot be eschewed must be embraced

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

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

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Be detached from desire your whole life long.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?