Seneca the Younger Quotes

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.

Angry people are not always wise.

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

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

I control my anger.

I don't really get angry any more.

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

Try to understand why it is happening, from where it is coming, where the roots are, how it happens, how it functions, how it overpowers you, how in anger you become mad. Anger has happened before, it is happening now, but now add a new element to it, the element of understanding -- and then the quality will change. Then, by and by, you will see that the more you understand anger, the less it happens. And when you understand it perfectly, it disappears. Understanding is like heat. When the heat comes to a particular point -- one hundred degrees -- the water disappears.

Anger should never be an overnight guest.

Today it may seem that your anger is very strong, how can meditation break it? But it breaks - it has always broken. Rock is very strong and meditation is very delicate, but this is the mystery of life - the continuity of the delicate can break the strongest and the hardest.

If the Devil says you cannot pray when you are angry, tell him it is none of his business, and pray until that species of insanity is dispelled and serenity is restored to the mind.

Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.

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

The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.

If I am immune against all anger, I never feel angry.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

I try to save being angry for the really important moments - for special occasions.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

He who angers you conquers you.