Aristotle Quotes
Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.
Quotes to Explore
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The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
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If your partner is angry with you, recognize that his anger is a misdirected plea for love. Your partner's simply upset because he feels something you said or did was a sign of not loving him enough.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.
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I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.
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Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.
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Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
Ford Frick
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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
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Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.
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Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments.
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Many of us who have cars have felt some form of extreme anger at other drivers because we feel they have put us in harm's way. We might even envision ramming their cars or cutting them off in return, but do we actually do it? No, because the overwhelming majority of us never want to take another human life.
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I vent my anger in the gym, and it calms me down.
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Violent anger makes me physically ill.
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What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.
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Adam Sandler is a remarkable movie brand.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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The best time is always yesterday.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.
