Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
When you're tight and angry
Anger sitting in your chest or jaw. These lines are for that heat, before you have to do anything with it.
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Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.
When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over.
The most fundamental aggression to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.
Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we're holding back.
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
I can do nothing for you but work on myself... you can do nothing for me but work on yourself.
Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
Forgiveness is giving up all hope for a better past.
Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it.
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
Don't try to change what is happening. Just observe, just see.
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you.
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image.
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
Forgiveness is the key that can unlock the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred.
We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking.
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you can let them be.
The way we perceive things is the way we react emotionally.
Your thoughts create your emotions; therefore, if you want to change how you feel, you must change how you think.
The more we resist our feelings, the more likely they are to persist.
The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president.
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.
Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now.
Life is not always going to go your way. You have to be able to deal with that.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity.
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.
Act without expectation.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Poetry is an act of peace.
I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.
People may differ in beliefs, they can differ in faith, but knowledge, true knowledge, is universal.
One whose mind remains undisturbed amidst misery, who does not crave for pleasure, and who is free from attachment, fear, and anger, is called a sage of steady wisdom.
Being free from attachment, fear, and anger, becoming fully absorbed in Me, and taking refuge in Me, many persons in the past became purified by knowledge of Me, and thus attained My divine love.
Those who are not a source of annoyance to anyone and who in turn are not agitated by anyone, who are equal in pleasure and pain, and free from fear and anxiety, such devotees of Mine are very dear to Me.