"Good works are continually being undone by the tons of hatred and anger which are being poured out on the world."
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"I am neither man nor angel. I have no sex nor limit. I am knowledge itself. I am He. I have neither anger nor hatred. I have neither pain nor pleasure. Death or birth I never had. For I am Knowledge Absolute, and Bliss Absolute. I am He, my soul, I am He!"
"Chastity, non-injury, forgiving even the greatest enemy, truth, faith in the Lord, these are all different Vrittis. Be not afraid if you are not perfect in all of these; work, they will come. He who has given up all attachment, all fear, and all anger, he whose whole soul has gone unto the Lord, he who has taken refuge in the Lord, whose heart has become purified, with whatsoever desire he comes to the Lord, He will grant that to him. Therefore worship Him through knowledge, love, or renunciation."
"Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows."
"Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?"
"I could not for my soul distinguish ever the distinction between "religious anger" and "commonplace anger", "religious killing" and "commonplace killing", "religious slandering and irreligious", and so forth."
"If you are angry, and then happy, the next moment the anger passes away. Out of that anger you manufactured the next state. These states are always interchangeable. Eternal happiness and misery are a child's dream."
"If I am immune against all anger, I never feel angry."
"Through the senses, anger comes, and sorrow comes."
"Do you recall the story of the young Yogi in the Mahâbhârata who prided himself on his psychic powers by burning the bodies of a crow and crane by his intense will, produced by anger?"
"Whom anger chains, can ever pass thro' Maya's gates."
"Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality."
"Never try to have the last word. You might get it."
"The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?"
"If we all got angry together something might be done."
"Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts."
"Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]"
"I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage."
"It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out."
"To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'"