Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

I'm not the perfect person. I'm not the most happy person. I get angry, and I get mad sometimes, but I try my best to control my thoughts. Because that flows throughout your body.

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.

Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?” “It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted and illogical and then coming face to face with yourself, looking at yourself exactly as you look to everyone else?

the important consideration is not your opponents, but yourself. It is bad to scream at them, not because it hurts them, they ought to be hurt, but because it hurts you. Anger is a form of recognition. It amounts to admitting that those people are important to you and that they have the power to hurt you. Actually, they haven't.

Sometimes we get very frustrated here on court. It is tough to control. It is a mistake.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

I've become a lot more tolerant; I think before I talk. I can take a lot now. I don't get as angry as I used to. Whenever I do, I channel my anger into my work.

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'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.

I don't want to be the angry guy.

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

I do have anger management issues. Not clinical. Probably no more than most people.

I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of control, and I like to have that kind of control.

Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

I'm too mature to be angry.

Sometimes I lose my temper.

I control my anger.

I feel there are very few people who can control their anger.

I don't really get angry any more.

I was forced, more or less, to go to anger management. I was either going to make myself and everyone around me miserable, or I was going to realize that there's more than one person on this Earth. It definitely has made me a better person.