Thomas Fuller Quotes

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.

I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.

Those four Super Bowl losses? Yeah, it sucks that we didn't win, but what are you going to do about it? You can feel sorry for yourself, but that's not how I was brought up.

I'm not going to get mad over something that I have no control over.

There are certain games where you have to hold your hands up, take your medicine, and move on to the next one.

I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training. To get irritated is to lose our way in life.

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

We've all felt anger. It can come when things don't turn out the way we want. It might be a reaction to something which is said of us or to us. We may experience it when people don't behave the way we want them to behave. Perhaps it comes when we have to wait for something longer than we expected. We might feel angry when others can't see things from our perspective. There seem to be countless possible reasons for anger….If we desire to have a proper spirit with us at all times, we must choose to refrain from becoming angry.

If you can't fix it, you have to stand it.

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend too much time thinking.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

I feel I'm pretty zen and laid back. I don't have a lot of rage in my real life.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

I try to save being angry for the really important moments - for special occasions.

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

I guess you deal with what you get.

You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.

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

We have to achieve what we can, and if we haven't yet learned that we are not always going to get our way this could be frustrating.