Bhagavad Gita Quotes for Feeling Angry

A pause is the first yoga.

Never decide while the fire is lit.

Anger rises like a wave; let it break without you.

In a debate, seek truth, not victory.

Do all your work as an offering, and keep your heart free of enmity.

Freedom from enmity is the quiet secret of a peaceful life.

Argue to understand, not to win.

Non-violence is the first sign of wisdom.

Hold the wave of desire and anger, and it passes.

Calm strength lasts longer than angry strength.

Harm to a part is harm to the whole.

Face your hardest duty with steadiness, not with hatred.

Non-reaction is a form of strength.

Equal goodwill toward friend and foe is a sign of freedom.

Freedom is finding that you need no enemies.

Gentleness is the strength that does not need to wound.

Freedom from anger is freedom from a heavy load.

A malice-free mind is a peaceful home.

Harshness is often fear in disguise.

Anger shortens the view and hardens the heart.

If you find hatred in yourself, ask what hurt is underneath.

Let knowledge, not anger, guide your hands.

Anger is attachment with a short fuse.

Anger clouds the very memory that would calm it.

Pause long enough to remember what you are protecting.

Desire and anger are two faces of the same restlessness.

Release both hatred and craving, and you have renounced enough.

The one who can wait out the storm within is free.

Peace is close to anyone free of craving and rage.

When you see how it all fits, quarrels grow quiet.

To see everyone inside one picture is to soften your judgments.

No rivalry outlasts the river of years.

Hate no one; it costs your own peace first.

Treat friend and foe with the same steady dignity.

Forbearance is strength that does not need to prove itself.

Harming another is a wound to the whole, and you are part of the whole.

To wound anyone is to forget how connected we are.

Let your energy serve good, not grudges.

Anger and arrogance weigh down the one who carries them.

Anger and craving are ropes; notice where they pull.

Ego and anger turn the heart against itself.

Hating others is a way of hating yourself in disguise.

Malice is a poison that the carrier drinks first.

Be gentle with the hater inside you; it is often hurt.

Anger, craving and greed hurt the one who carries them first.

Anger has a long root; it begins with where you keep looking.

In anger we forget who we are and what we value.

Anger is often desire that was blocked.

Hatred and desire are two hands of the same grip.

When all lives feel like your own, harm loses its appeal.

Seeing the shared origin softens every quarrel.

Strength that serves needs no craving or rage.

A strong person is gentle where it counts.

Aversion is as much a movement of the field as attraction.

Anger at others often begins with unkindness toward oneself.

Restraint can be a form of courage.

An even heart is not cold; it simply refuses to be hijacked.

Guard your attention, and you guard your temper.

A mind absorbed in the highest has little room for anger.

Feel the anger fully, but do not let it drive.

Fire transforms; be careful what you feed it.

Answer slander with steadiness, not with sharper words.

Hatred of the bad binds you as tightly as craving for the good.

Catch the thought early; it costs less than catching the anger.

Rage borrows your intelligence and rarely returns it on time.

Reaction is a habit; stillness can become one too.

Look at the real faces before you choose your action.

Thought breeds attachment, attachment breeds desire, and blocked desire breeds anger.

The slide from anger to ruin is steep; step back at the first slope.

A sharp word costs more than a slow breath.

Respond; don’t react.

Name the restlessness behind your anger.

Master your reactions before you try to master the world.

To harm another is to forget who you are.

Freedom from anger is a short walk from freedom itself.

Hatred is attachment turned inside out.

Speech is action too; use it with care.

Firmness without kindness is only force.

Anger and desire are the two heaviest things to carry.

Treat every person as a dwelling place of the Divine.

Every conflict has real people in it.

Remember who your opponents are to someone else.

Not every conflict needs a fight.

Not every slander deserves a reply.

Every outburst has a quiet prehistory.

Seeing one life in all, how can you hate?

Division is easy; understanding takes patience.

Restrain speech before it restrains you.

Intelligent opponents deserve accurate respect.

When you refuse to retaliate, you break a chain.

Choose the response you can live with.

A calm mind makes cleaner words and cleaner deeds.

Before you divide, remember what binds.

Non-retaliation begins as a decision and becomes a character.

Know your triggers before they know you.

Rise above your moods and stay good to everyone.

Greed and rage burn the same fuel.

Malice is effort misdirected.

Forgiveness frees the one who forgives.

Release attachment, fear and anger, and the mind turns clear.

Free of desire, fear and anger, you are liberated already.

Non-harming is the first form of love.

Hold no grudge against any being; carry only goodwill.

Before speaking, ask: is it true, is it kind, is it needed?

Meet friend and foe with the same open mind.

Ask: how would this feel if it were happening to me?

Let the sweep of time soften your grudges.

Be as quick to forgive as you would like others to be.

Free yourself from attachment, and from enmity as well.

Craving, anger and greed are three doors to self-harm; learn to close them.

Fear, anger and clinging are three knots; wisdom loosens them.

When passion settles, joy rises like still water.

Be fair to everyone, even those who are not fair to you.

A view that excuses cruelty should be questioned.

Close the doors of craving, rage and grasping, one at a time.

Fear, anger and craving rise like tides; steady ground outlasts them.

Forgiveness is strength that has finished fighting.

Drop ego, force, and pride; what remains is peace.

Not every impulse is an order.

Win the inner argument and the outer ones grow easy.

Hold the same goodwill for the helper and the harmer.

Wish the best even for those who wish you harm.

Neither cheer too loudly nor curse too quickly.

Let go of the grudge; keep the lesson.

Cut with a firm hand and a calm mind.

Meet insult with composure and it loses its power.

Look away from what inflames you before it becomes what you cannot refuse.

Hurtful words say more about the speaker than about you.

Desire and anger are the real hurdles; clear them and peace is close.

What are you either craving or resenting today?

Which of desire, fear or anger holds you most today?

Whom do you think of as an enemy, and could you soften toward them?

Where does your anger at others reflect something you dislike in yourself?