Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

I can turn around and scream and get angry, but I turn around and I forget about it.

I don't really get angry any more.

I don't know if I'm ready to know what triggers my anger. I just feel like I figured out on my own how to stay calm, how to enjoy life, how to be happy.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

I still get mad. I still get upset. But I let it go more quickly.

I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible.

I was mad until I was about 25. Completely out of control with my emotions. Everything that happened to me was a tragedy. I've been much happier over 25.

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

There's always going to be people saying negative and positive things. If you let all that into you, and you're always contemplating that and thinking about that, I'm sure that can get to you. I try not to do that.

I spent 43 years of my life in anger and I know what it can do... Now I pray a lot. I do whatever I need to do to keep me out of that anger, out of that place where I can't grow and be better.

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

That aggression came over time from dealing with stuff - 'Anger Management' really is what it's called. That project came out and I felt a weight lifted off my chest. I learned something about myself.

We do not need to become unhappy just because things don't go our way.

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".

You've achieved cheerfulness the day you realize that no matter what's happening around you, being anything other than cheerful will not make it better.

When you're tempted to be upset, ask yourself 'Is this worth giving up my joy?'

Guard your good mood.

Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.

The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger - the greatest threat to our inner peace, and therefore our happiness. The mind, or spirit, is not physical, it cannot be touched or harmed directly. Only negative thoughts and emotions can harm it. Therefore, only the corresponding positive quality can protect it.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life that you can't control - but you can control how you respond.

Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.

Sometimes we get very frustrated here on court. It is tough to control. It is a mistake.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.