"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes."
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"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm."
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"As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive."
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"Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth."
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"To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all."
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"When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly."
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"When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred."
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"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots."
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"Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods."
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"Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace."
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"Rage is by no means an automatic reaction to misery and suffering as such; no one reacts with rage to an incurable disease or to an earthquake or, for that matter, to social conditions that seem to be unchangeable. Only where there is reason to suspect that conditions could be changed and are not does rage arise."
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"This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself."
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"Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness"
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"There's never a mistake in the universe. So if your partner is angry, good. If there are things about him that you consider flaws, good, because these flaws are your own, you're projecting them, and you can write them down, inquire, and set yourself free. People go to India to find a guru, but you don't have to: you're living with one. Your partner will give you everything you need for your own freedom."
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"You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves."
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"The best remedy for anger is delay."
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"It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go."
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"Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself."
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"When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates."
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"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."
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