Anger Quotes

Some Anger quotes and sayings that might help you fight your anger

“Speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.”
~Dr. Laurence J. Peter

“If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.”
~Korean Proverb

“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.”
~Confucius

“Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.”
~Horace Walpole

“When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.”
~Epictetus

“If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.”
~Epictetus

“Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
~Malachy McCourt

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
~Maya Angelou

“Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.”
~ Gautama Buddha

“Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.”
~James Fallows

“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”
~Seneca

“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”
~ Plato

“One should not lose one’s temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.”
~William Butler Yeats

“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”
~Albert Einstein

Charity Quotes

Some quotes and sayings on Charity, the christian charity kind?

No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
~Edmund Burke

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is every wasted.
~ Aesop

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
~ Calvin Coolidge

He is truly great who hath a great charity.
~Thomas a Kempis

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
~Helen Keller

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
~ Mark Twain

In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind’s concern is charity.
~ Alexander Pope

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaulteth not itself, is not puffed up.
~Bible

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
~ Jack London

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. ~William Hutton

He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own..
~Confucius

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
~Zoroaster

True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense
~Emanuel Swedenborg

Charity begins at home, but should not end there
~Proverb

The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms
~Bertrand Russell

Life Quotes

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
~Hans Christian Anderson

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
~Abraham Lincoln

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
~Robert Byrne

A useless life is an early death.
~Goethe

Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
~Alan Bennett

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
~Chinese Proverb

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
~Albert Einstein

A life without cause is a life without effect.
~Barbarella

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
~Alice Walker

Life’s not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.
~Cherralea Morgen

The most decisive actions of our life … are most often unconsidered actions.
~André Gide

I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it.
~Jack Handey

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
~Emily Dickinson

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~Howard Thurman

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.
~Dalai Lama

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
~Corita Kent

You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
~Quentin Crisp

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
~George Sand

As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose.
~Author Unknown

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death
~Albert Einstein

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
~ Maria Robinson

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
~Edith Wharton

Christian Quotes

“Life is Hard, God is Good, Let’s Dance.”

“The Lord will guide you always, he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land. You will be like a spring whose waters never fail.”
~ Isaiah 58:11

“We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.”
~Harry S. Truman

“Death is not extinguishing the light from the Christian; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”

“When the Omniscient God asks you a question, it is not because he is seeking information.”

“Christian homes don’t just happen — they’re built.”

“Stop telling God how big your storm is and start telling your storm how big your God is.”

“For in Him we live, and move and have our being.”
~ Acts 17:28

“Prayer is my escape from life on earth, and my entrance into life with God.”

“True passion for Jesus is born out of anguish. ”
~ David Wilkerson

“You never know how much faith you have till the storm comes.”

“God’s work done God’s way will never lack God’s supply.”
~ Hudson Taylor

Apology Quotes and Sayings

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
~Margaret Laurence

An apology is a good way to have the last word.
~Author Unknown

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
~Kimberly Johnson

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
~ Red Auerbach

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.
~Margaret Lee Runbeck

Friends are God’s apology for relations.
~Hugh Kingsmill

The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words
~ John Milton

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
~Samuel Butler

My mother could make anybody feel guilty – she used to get letters of apology from people she didn’t even know.
~ Joan Rivers

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.
~Jonathan Swift

Books Quotes and Sayings

Here are some sayings and quotes about book.

“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.”
~James Bryce

“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.”
~Abraham Lincoln

“I didn’t write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.”
~Larry Hagman

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
~Garrison Keillor

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way”
~Caroline Gordon

“Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.”
~Samuel Johnson

“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.”
~Aldous Huxley

“Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.”
~ George William Curtis

“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”
~P. L. Travers

“‘Tis the good reader that makes the good book.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.’
~ Winston Churchill

“Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.”
~Henry David Thoreau

“Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are” is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread. ”
~François Mauriac

“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ”
~P.J. O’Rourke

“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ”
~Chinese Proverb

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.”
~Helen Exley

Torture Quotes and Sayings

Quill is an implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.
~Ambrose Bierce

“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”
~ James Anthony Froude

“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”
~Mahatma Gandhi

“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul”
~John Calvin

“If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey’s records on.”
~Cameron Diaz

“Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.”
~Alan Feldman

“In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.”
~ Luis Bunuel

“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.”
~Harriet Beecher Stowe

“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.”
~John Calvin

“Love is a reciprocal torture.”
~Marcel Proust

” Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. ”
~Arthur Eddington

“I’ve already told you: the only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.”
~Marquis De Sade

“If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water”
~ Bulgarian Proverb

“The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”
~Carl Jung

No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
~Lord Byron

“Chess is mental torture.”
~Garry Kasparov

“Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services”
~Heraclitus of Ephesus

Persecution

Some Persecution Quotes and Sayings:

Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.
~Frank R. Wolf

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
~Buddha

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
~George Eliot

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
~George Eliot

The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.
~ John Rawls

Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.
~Oliver Goldsmith

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
~ Thomas Paine

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
~ Joseph Addison

Do not expect justice where might is right.
~ Plato

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
~Frank Moore Colby

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.
~Isabel Paterson

The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.
Daniel D. Palmer

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
~Thomas Babington

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
George Eliot

Book

Some quotes and sayings on Books.

The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading: but a great book that comes from a great thinker — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and with beauty.
~Theodore Parker

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. ~Walter Pater

A house without books is like a room without windows. ~Heinrich Mann

I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget. ~William Lyon Phelps

A book is the only immortality.
Rufus Choate

I don’t go by the rule book… I lead from the heart, not the head.
Princess Diana

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Mark Twain

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Ernest Hemingway

This book that I just wrote is going to be coming out very soon to Australia.
Ronald Biggs

More Book Quotes

Heaven Quotes

Heaven is so far of the Mind
That were the Mind dissolved
The Site ..of it…by Architect
Could not again be proved

Tis vast…as our Capacity
As fair….as our idea
To Him of adequate desire
No further ’tis, than Here
~Emily Dickinson

In the Christian world… it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.
~Emanuel Swedenborg

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
~Mark Twain

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
~Ambrose Bierce

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
~Lao Tzu

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves – or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
~Ayn Rand

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
~James A. Baldwin

Heaven means to be one with God.
~Confucius

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground
~Dante Alighieri

A lawyer’s dream of Heaven: Every man reclaimed his own property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
~Samuel Butler

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
~John Milton

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
~Jean Paul

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won’t let them into our country.
~Pearl S. Buck

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
~H. G. Wells

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
~Thomas Carlyle

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.
~William Blake

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave
~ Matthew Henry

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
~George Herbert

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