Eknath Easwaran Quotes

If you get angry easily, it may be because the seed of anger in you has been watered frequently over many years, and unfortunately you have allowed it or even encouraged it to be watered.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel.

Each time you indulge in the emotion of anger or the behavior of yelling at a loved one, you reinforce the neural connection and increase the likelihood that you'll do it again.

Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad.

Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger; it fuels it.

Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.

At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.

Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.

Why you don't wanna let him talk? You mad, you maaad, you maaaaad.

Like anyone else, I too have the potential for violence; I too have anger in me. However, I try to recall that anger is a destructive emotion. I remind myself that scientists now say that anger is bad for our health; it eats into our immune system. So, anger destroys our peace of mind and our physical health. We shouldn’t welcome it or think of it as natural or as a friend.

Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.

What I am saying is that there is no need for anybody to suffer. Just be aware, let awareness be there. Anger will arise and will be consumed by awareness. One cannot be angry with awareness and one cannot be greedy with awareness and one cannot be jealous with awareness. Awareness is the golden key.

Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.

By all means give vent to your anger, let it out in nondestructive ways--if you are still deciding to have it. But begin to think of yourself as someone who can learn to think new thoughts when you are frustrated, so that the immobilizing anger can be replaced by more fulfilling emotions. Annoyance, irritation, and disappointment are feelings that you will very likely continue to experience, since the world will never be the way you want it. But anger, that hurtful emotional response to obstacles, can be eliminated.

the important consideration is not your opponents, but yourself. It is bad to scream at them, not because it hurts them, they ought to be hurt, but because it hurts you. Anger is a form of recognition. It amounts to admitting that those people are important to you and that they have the power to hurt you. Actually, they haven't.

You can't sustain [anger]. You become bitter. Nothing's going to change. Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then to martyrdom.

Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart.

I'd rather deal with anger than apathy.

If you aren't feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn't have anything to feed on.

I had been very angry, angry enough to lose control; none of us are above it.

Never anger made good guard for itself.

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.