Echoes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Accept everything just the way it is.

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

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

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

It is indeed foolish to be unhappy now because you may be unhappy at some future time.

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

The best fighter is never angry.

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

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

We place the happy life in the security of the mind and in freedom from all obligations.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

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

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.