harmful emotions Quotes

Resentment and anger are not good for the soul. They are foul things.

I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people.

Anger is self-immolation.

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

You can't ever stop thinking something quick enough. Something that hurts always gets the knife in too fast for you to slam a lid on it and shove it away.

If you are bitter, it will eat you up and do you much more damage than the people who have hurt you

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

Lachrymal counsellors, with one foot in the cave of despair, and the other invading the peace of their friends, are the paralyzers of action, the pests of society, and the subtlest homicides in the world; they poison with a tear; and convey a dagger to the heart while they press you to their bosoms.

Hatred is the most destructive force on earth. It does the most damage to those who harbor it.

Love can make us do dreadful things.

Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive.

I think my mission is to support people in being steadfast in not having thoughts of harm - thoughts of judgment, worry, or hatred - directed toward themselves or others.