Dalai Lama Quotes

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.

I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

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.

I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of control, and I like to have that kind of control.

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

We require our fighters to be ready hurricanes, on-call combat machines. We want them held easily in check, and we expect light-switch control over their aggression…. We vaguely hope their anger does not spill over, or come home.

I find rage to be the scariest emotion as an actor, for me personally, to tap into. I don't like anger, and I don't like conflict particularly in my life. I like everybody to be nice and things to be easy.

Sometimes when I get frustrated and ticked off, there's a little more fire there. It can also get you in trouble if you're not careful, but I think within reason it can help you.

I used to be angry all the time and at everybody. I would get really violent.

Anger can be a good thing. It's a mechanism that your brain uses to get you out of situations that are bad for you. But in terms of leading a peaceful life, it is not very productive.

Nobody's angry all the time, unless you're a psycho.

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature.

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

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

We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind.

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

I don't think being angry is useful or healthy, and usually when I get angry, my brain just goes right out the window. Boom, as soon as the adrenaline hits, instant stupid. Just add water and mix.

The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger.

If you’re aggressive in your dealings, that’s how you’ll be regarded in the world. You might smile and give generously, but if you frequently explode in anger, people never feel comfortable in your presence and you’ll never have peace of mind.

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

Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.

Some people say, "Sometimes I have violent thoughts, what can I do?" So I say, "Well, have them!" Cos we should not try to control ourselves. It's very bad to control ourselves in this sense. If you have any emotion at all, if its a bad emotion or good emotion, think about it, you should just understand that you have those emotions. And it's good because we are people and we have all these emotions. And the result of that is you would become more and more peaceful. If you don't let those emotions be inside of you then you become extremely violent.