Love Your Enemies Quotes

“Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier

“Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity.”
― Robert Thurman, Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier

“In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.”
― Robert Thurman, Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier

“Instead of catching ourselves after we first felt angry, we develop a visceral sensitivity to what's happening within us in the moment & through mindfulness, we can shape our reaction right away.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier

“Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier

“Why be unhappy about something if you can do something about it? If you can’t do anything about it, why be unhappy about it?”
― Sharon Salzberg, Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier

“True wealth is contentment, and happiness is forgetting to worry how you are and how much you have.”
― Robert Thurman, Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit and Be Much Happier

“Anger often makes us hurt ourselves more than any enemy.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier

“Hatred does not help us alleviate our pain even in the slightest.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier

“To sense which gifts to accept & which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier

“Hatred will never cease by hatred; hatred will only cease by love.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier

“There is always blame in this world,” he told them. “If you say nothing, they will blame you. If you say too much, they will blame you. There is always blame in this world.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier

“Every person has the potential to be unpleasant and harmful, just as every person has the potential to be pleasant and helpful.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier

“Wir werden die vier Feinde in dieser Reihenfolge behandeln, weil auch der Weg der Befreiung durch die Überwindung von Ärger, Angst und Selbstbezogenheit im Allgemeinen diesen Verlauf von außen nach innen nimmt.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Umarme deinen Feind: Buddhistische Techniken zur Befreiung von inneren und äußeren Widersachern

“Der äußere Feind: Das sind Einzelne oder Institutionen, die uns in irgendeiner Weise schikanieren, verunsichern oder schädigen. Auch frustrierende Situationen gehören zu dieser Kategorie. Der innere Feind: Darunter sind Ärger, Hass, Angst und andere destruktive Impulse zu verstehen. Der heimliche Feind: Hierzu gehört die zwanghafte Beschäftigung mit uns selbst, die uns anderen Menschen entfremdet und deshalb einsam und frustriert macht. Der geheime Feind: Das ist die tief sitzende Selbstablehnung, die uns keinen inneren Frieden und kein Glück finden lässt.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Umarme deinen Feind: Buddhistische Techniken zur Befreiung von inneren und äußeren Widersachern

“Everyone Can Play is now the precept I live by. We may not agree with one another. We may argue. We may compete. But everybody gets to play, no matter what. We all deserve a shot at life.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier