Emotions
215 quotes: 44 by Keith Craft, 171 from other voices.
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- Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
- Don’t let people pull you into their storm. Pull them into your peace.
- Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes, that she may lower another by a defeat.
- Encouragement is oxygen for the soul
- Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.
- Focusing on what you can't control makes you stressed. Focusing on what you can control makes you powerful.
- For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
- Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
- Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
- Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
- Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
- Half the ills we hoard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.
- Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored & destroy the object on which it is poured.
- Hating clouds the mind. It gets in the way of strategy. Leaders cannot afford to hate.
- Hatred is self-punishment.
- Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
- He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green.
- He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
- He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king.
- He who subdues his temper vanquishes his greatest enemy.
- How others treat me is their path; how I react is mine.
- I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go.
- If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.
- If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.
- If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.
- If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it. And it is in thy power to wipe out this judgment now.
- If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.
- If you are upset, wait until you are not upset to communicate that you are upset.
- If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.
- If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend its increase.
- If you don’t know yourself, you can’t control your own emotions.
- If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: “He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned.
- Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
- Irritation, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
- It is best not to be angry; and best, in the next place, to be quickly reconciled.
- It is not he who gives abuse or blows who affronts, but the view we take of these things as insulting.
- It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.
- It is not the absence, but the mastery, of our passions which affords happiness.
- It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.