Buddha Quotes

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

You've got to be able to let things roll off your back, and you've got to have some patience.

The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.'

Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot. Basically, patience protects us from being discouraged.

What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.

Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings.

The problem with taking offense is that it's really hard to figure out what to do with it after you're done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.

People piss you off but its always important to forgive and forget.

He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.

If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind.

Patience puts up with those you'd like to put down

We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt.

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.

Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot of work, but to me it's worthwhile.

If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

I'm not an angry woman. I'm not bitter.