Mousa Dembele Quotes

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

I'm not an angry man.

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

I'm actually a little bit more tolerant than I thought I was. I've got kids, so I do have a lot of faces.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

I've learned sometimes you just have to take the bad from people.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

You lose a lot of time, hating people.

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

My years as a therapist working with abuse and neglect families taught me at least one important lesson for my own life. Never judge until you can see through the eyes of that person you are judging, and then... never judge.

Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.

I'm not angry at anyone.

With trials, you become wiser. You learn more about yourself and the people surrounding you. Me personally, I've never been the type of person to judge anyone over wrongdoing, no matter what it is. I'm just not a judgmental person.

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

My parents taught me the way to deal with being picked on was to be compassionate. I had to defend myself physically, but I had to be compassionate and understand the position of those abusing me. I had to figure it out and then rise above it.

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.