“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” — Mark Twain
“Holding onto anger/resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” — Buddha 1
“A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.” — Winston Churchill
“He who angers you conquers you.” — Elizabeth Kenny 2
“Anger always outlasts hurt. Best to take the opposite course.” — Seneca
“Anger is a contract you make with yourself to be in physical and mental and emotional turmoil until reality changes.” — Naval Ravikant
Beneath anger there’s always fear.
發火/憤怒/生氣時不講話/決策
- Speak when you’re angry and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.
- The greatest remedy for anger is delay. When you are angry, try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking and thinking.
沈默是反擊無恥的無聲風暴，憤怒是抗擊外辱的有效自殘
The story of the Buddha and the Angry Man
One day, the Buddha was walking through a village when a young man approached and began yelling at him.
“You are a fake! How can you claim to have wisdom to teach others? You know nothing!”
The Buddha paused and smiled at the young man, which further angered him.
“What do you have to say to me? I attack you and you just smile?”
The Buddha replied: “If you buy a gift for someone and that person doesn’t accept it, to whom does the gift belong?”
The young man, agitated, replied that the gift would still belong to him, because he was the one who had bought it.
The Buddha nodded: “The same applies to your anger. If you come to me with anger, but I choose not to accept it, the anger still belongs to you. You are the only one who is moved by it.”