Seth Godin Quotes

When someone gives you offense, it doesn't mean you have to take 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.

If you're offended, it's your problem.

For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind

We begin to forgive by choosing to forgive . . . by deciding, not by feeling. Our feelings don't lead us to forgive. Most times, our feelings lead us the other way. That's why a person has to decide to forgive first. Our feelings always follow along behind our decisions.

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

When you're hurt or angry, let go by tapping into your humbleness. You want people to remember you for your grace.

Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

If you should encounter angry or unkind actions today, take a deep breath, reach deep within and greet the lack of love with love.

Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

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

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.

When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about.

A disagreement or incident involving someone who's not that important to you, like a guy who cut you off in traffic or a rude cashier, is something that should roll off your shoulders. Save the effort for resolving conflicts with the people you cherish.

No, seriously, I really don't have much ill-will toward anyone these days; I just ignore the people that I dislike.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

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

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.

Only when emotion is involved do you get angry and lose your temper. You could have different points of view, but as long as it is constructive dissent, it is fun.

As a human being, it's in your nature, when somebody says something about you negatively, to defend yourself and lash back. That's what we all have to learn not to do. You have to forgive a person. And when you forgive a person, you have to forgive yourself.

You see all the movies where people say, 'Don't fight out of anger'? They say that for a reason.