When we are impatient, we are neither reverential nor reflective because we are too self-centered. Whereas faith and patience are companions, so are selfishness and impatience. It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; so easy to be indignant without being intelligent; so easy to be impulsive without being insightful. It is so easy to command others when we are not in control of ourselves. . Neil A. Maxwell
If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it... Don't allow his anger to become your anger.
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Bohdi Sanders
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Gustave Flaubert
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
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Robert E. Lee
Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not...
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Epictetus
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When we are impatient, we are neither reverential nor reflective because we are too self-centered. Whereas faith and patience are companions, so are selfishness and impatience. It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; so easy to be indignant without being intelligent; so...
