Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

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

I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.

Now I've come to a place where I believe that anger doesn't really make me a better actor.

Yogis have human emotions, but the thing is not to let anger and doubt become an obsession.

The strong is not the one who is physically powerful, but indeed, the one who controls himself when angry.

There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.

The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and does nothing practical. It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.

Being angry is human. Staying angry is foolish.

You do not HAVE to be angry just because you have the right to be angry.

Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

Let this become your key - next time when anger comes, just watch it. Don't say.

Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing.

It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.

A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.

Anger is one of the most common and destructive delusions, and it afflicts our mind almost every day. To solve the problem of anger, we first need to recognize the anger within our mind, acknowledge how it harms both ourself and others, and appreciate the benefits of being patient in the face of difficulties.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

I still have a temper, I suppose.

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

We don't get the greatest tools to deal with anger. It's like, 'Hey, count to 10.' When someone really upsets me, how do I respond? I don't usually start counting to 10 and breathing deeply.

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.