Today’s One-Liner (#313)
If we get so angry that we can’t sleep, we are overnight guests in hell’s hotel. –Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness: On the Beatitudes, 62
Tag: anger
Four Questions
How many hours do you think you waste every week complaining about things that happened to you that are out of your control? How much time do you spend worrying about things that might happen…
Today’s One-Liner (#161)
Get away from any man who always argues every time he talks. –ABBOT PASTOR, cited in Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century
Beware/Be Aware of Anger
The maxim which Periander of Corinth, one of the seven sages of Greece, left as a memorial of his knowledge and benevolence, was χολου κρατει, Be master of thy anger. He considered anger as the…
The Thread of One’s Anger — Jean-Paul Sartre
I always felt I had to stay in contact with the world, with my world. Ever since Marx, philosophy must lead to action. Otherwise it is irrelevant. So a philosopher does what he has to…