Byron Katie Quotes

I think, for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.

Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.

When you're overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind.

Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions. Most emotions are responses to perception - what you think is true about a given situation. If your perception is false, then your emotional response to it will be false too. So check your perceptions, and beyond that check the truthfulness of your paradigms - what you believe. Just because you believe something firmly doesn't make it true. Be willing to reexamine what you believe.

We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.

I don't think I get angry.

One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.

People will feel the way they feel.

When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.

How do I control my emotions? How do I stop getting angry so often, or how do I stop being sad? And I think there's a really important distinction to understand is that you can't completely control your emotions. What you control is your reaction to your own emotions. And a lot of people don't ever make that separation for what goes on with them.

I get angry very fast, and it's intense. I start breathing heavily, and don't like it.

Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones

Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.

Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

It usually takes two people to make one of them angry.

If someone irritates you, it is only your own response that is irritating you. Therefore, when anyone seems to be provoking you, remember that it is only your judgment of the incident that provokes you. -

Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad.

I'm interested in such things as the difference between how we perceive the world and what the world turns out to be. The difference is between the stories we tell others and the stories we tell ourselves. There is a wonderful Russian saying, which I use as the epigraph of one of my novels, which goes, He lies like an eyewitness. Which is very sly, clever and true.

When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness

Anger is a call for awareness.

As a human being, you have the right to get angry; but as a practitioner, you do not have the right to stop practicing.

Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!