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  • #1
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #2
    Daniel Quinn
    “You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer”
    Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
    tags: deep

  • #3
    “The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
    Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, The Teaching of Buddha

  • #4
    Hermann Hesse
    “When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.”
    Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

  • #5
    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions

  • #6
    Stephen  King
    “Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”
    Stephen King, Bag of Bones

  • #7
    Gautama Buddha
    “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.”
    Buddha

  • #8
    William Arthur Ward
    “It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.”
    William Arthur Ward

  • #9
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.”
    Rumi

  • #10
    Ambrose Bierce
    “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
    Ambrose Bierce

  • #11
    Lao Tzu
    “The best fighter is never angry.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #12
    Toni Morrison
    “Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don't think it's any of that — it's helpless ... it's absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever."

    [Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.]”
    Toni Morrison

  • #13
    Euripides
    “Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.”
    Euripides

  • #14
    Jason Mraz
    “Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you.”
    Jason Mraz

  • #15
    Mitch Albom
    “Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.”
    Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

  • #16
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #17
    Graham Greene
    “Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.”
    Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

  • #18
    Gautama Buddha
    “All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.”
    Gautama Buddha

  • #19
    “You only lose what you cling to.”
    Guatama Buddha

  • #20
    Gautama Buddha
    “It is like a lighted torch whose flame can be distributed to ever so many other torches which people may bring along; and therewith they will cook food and dispel darkness, while the original torch itself remains burning ever the same. It is even so with the bliss of the Way.”
    Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni, The Sutra Of The Forty-Two Sections

  • #21
    Hermann Hesse
    “What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.”
    Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

  • #22
    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

  • #23
    Aldous Huxley
    “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
    Aldous Huxley

  • #24
    Aldous Huxley
    “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
    Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries

  • #25
    Aldous Huxley
    “An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
    Aldous Huxley

  • #26
    Aldous Huxley
    “I am I, and I wish I weren't.”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

  • #27
    Aldous Huxley
    “Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
    Aldous Huxley

  • #28
    Aldous Huxley
    “That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.”
    Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies

  • #29
    Aldous Huxley
    “Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

  • #30
    Aldous Huxley
    “Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.”
    Aldous Huxley, Island



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