Thomas de Quincey Quotes

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

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

Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot of work, but to me it's worthwhile.

The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.

I'll get mad, but then I'll let it go. It's not worth stewing over for the rest of your life. You've got to move on and let it go.

Once you let things go, they don't make you mad anymore.

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.

People piss you off but its always important to forgive and forget.

I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

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

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

If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.

I've learned to let things roll off my back.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

I am someone who can't hold on to negativity or hold on to grudges. I might feel something at a certain point, but I get tired after that. I don't carry it with me. I forgive and forget very easily, and that's the only way to be happy and peaceful.

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.

Life's easier and nicer when you let go of the past and look to the future.

I can hold on to that, that bitterness and that anger. It won't get me anywhere.

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.

Knowing that anger makes me ugly, I smile instead. I return to myself and meditate on love.

If only it were that easy to let go of hate. Just relax your face.