Bhagavad Gita Quotes: When Feeling Angry

A pause is the first yoga.

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

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

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

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

Calm strength lasts longer than angry strength.

Non-reaction is a form of strength.

Freedom from anger is freedom from a heavy load.

Anger shortens the view and hardens the heart.

Let knowledge, not anger, guide your hands.

Anger is attachment with a short fuse.

Anger clouds the very memory that would calm it.

Desire and anger are two faces of the same restlessness.

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

Peace is close to anyone free of craving and rage.

Hate no one; it costs your own peace first.

Anger and arrogance weigh down the one who carries them.

Ego and anger turn the heart against itself.

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

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.

Honour and insult are weather; the mind need not storm.

Guard your attention, and you guard your temper.

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

Not every impulse is an order.

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

Fire transforms; be careful what you feed it.

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.

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

Respond; don’t react.

Name the restlessness behind your anger.

Freedom from anger is a short walk from freedom itself.

Hatred is attachment turned inside out.

Anger and desire are the two heaviest things to carry.

Meet insult with composure and it loses its power.

A calm mind makes cleaner words and cleaner deeds.

Know your triggers before they know you.

Rise above your moods and stay good to everyone.

Malice is effort misdirected.

Never decide while the fire is lit.

Honour and insult are weather; you are the sky.

Suppression is a lid on the pot; understanding is lowering the flame.

Turn every impulse into a conscious choice.

Pause long enough to remember what you are protecting.

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

Restraint can be a form of courage.

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

Answer slander with steadiness, not with sharper words.

A sharp word costs more than a slow breath.

To harm another is to forget who you are.

Not every slander deserves a reply.

Seeing one life in all, how can you hate?

Master the senses, and kindness becomes easier.

When you refuse to retaliate, you break a chain.

Choose the response you can live with.