Lou Reed Quotes

I don't really get angry any more.

Whenever anger comes up, take out a mirror and look at yourself. When you are angry, you are not very beautiful.

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

Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

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

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

I'm too mature to be angry.

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.

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.

When anyone arouses my anger, I will immediately pray for them and regain my peace of soul.

The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and does nothing practical. It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.

Living without hate for people is almost impossible. There is nothing wrong with fantasizing about revenge. You can have that feeling. You just shouldn't act in it.

You do not HAVE to be angry just because you have the right to be angry.

I knew that my heart and mind would always be tempted to feel anger--to find blame and hate. But I resolved that when the negative feelings came upon me, I wouldn't wait for them to grow or fester. I would always turn immediately to the Source of all true power: I would turn to God and let His love and forgiveness protect and save me.

Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which is reasonable, mild, kindly, and loving, how could poverty stand in our way? For we accomplish these things not by spending money but by making the correct choice.

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

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

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 think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

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.