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Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Anger | Consequences | Think |
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
Anger |
To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics.
Be calm in argument; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. Why should I feel another man’s mistakes more than his sicknesses or poverty? In love I should: but anger is not love, nor wisdom either; therefore gently move. Calmness is great advantage; he that lets another chafe may warm him at his fire, mark all his wand’rings and enjoy his frets, as cunning fencers suffer heat to tire.
Anger | Argument | Calmness | Cunning | Error | Fault | Love | Man | Poverty | Truth | Wisdom |
To rule one’s anger is well; to prevent it is better.
Lord Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Humanity is the peculiar characteristic of great minds; little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the exact pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
Joseph Chilton Pearce, aka Joe
A positive emotional state entrains, or unites, our systems for thought, feeling, and action; shifts our concentration and energy toward support of our intellectual and creative forebrain (old mammalian and neocortex); and allows us to both learn and remember easily. In very young children, the primary caregiver’s emotional state determines the child’s state, and therefore the child’s development in general. Any kind of negative response, any form of fear or anger shifts our attention and energy from verbal-intellectual brain to our oldest survival brain. This shift shortchanges our intellect, cripples our learning and memory, and can lock our neocortex into service of our lower brain.
Action | Anger | Attention | Children | Energy | Fear | Learning | Memory | Service | Survival | Thought | Learn |
Anger is fuel. We feel it and we want to do something... Anger is meant to be listened to... Anger is not the action itself. It is action's invitation.
Ovid, formally Publius Ovidius Naso NULL
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
Anger is rooted in our lack of understanding of ourselves and of the causes, deep-seated as well as immediate, that brought about this unpleasant state of affairs. Anger is also rooted in desire, pride, agitation and suspicion. The primary roots of our anger are in ourselves. Our environment and other people are only secondary. It is not difficult for us to accept the enormous damage brought abut by a natural disaster, such as an earthquake or a flood. But when damage is caused by another person, we don’t have much patience. We know that earthquakes and floods have causes, and we should see that the person who has precipitated our anger also has reasons, deep-seated and immediate, for what he has done.
Agitation | Anger | Desire | Patience | People | Pride | Suspicion | Understanding |
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Anger | Controversy | Truth |