Quotes About Mindfulness

When you are angry, it means you, yourself are unhappy. Even if you are wronged, you are still making yourself unhappy if you feel anger.

When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.

The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Anger kills both laughter and joy; What greater foe is there than anger?

Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely.

The best cure for anger is delay.

Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.

Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable.

Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth.

Anger is self-immolation.

Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.

Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

None of us can afford to pay the price of resenting...because of what it does to us.

There are some people who eat an orange but don't really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future.

Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.

Anger should never be an overnight guest.