If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
A life of reaction is a life of slavery. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
- Rita Mae Brown
For many good people, divorce and the years that follow are angry, bitter times with two people who once held hands and said silly love things now lined up behind lawyers, ready to do battle.
- Dennis Rogers
The trouble with most people is their trouble with most people.
- anonymous
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
- Albert Einstein
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
- Whitney Young
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change;
where we are right, make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ten enemies cannot do a man the harm that he does to himself.
- Yiddish Proverb
Helpful interaction with your former spouse will require the dismantling of a brick wall—brick-by-brick.
- anonymous
Don’t waste time fixing the blame; fix the cause.
- Zig Ziglar
To retaliate in kind would do nothing but intensify the existence of hate in the universe. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough, and morality enough, to cut off the chain of hate.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do not be angry that you cannot make others as you would wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
- Thomas à Kempis
Never argue with a fool. People might not be able to tell the difference!
- anonymous
We evaluate others with a godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a godlike compassion.
- Sydney J. Harris
If you scatter thorns, don’t go barefoot.
- Italian proverb
Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
- Thomas More
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
- William Shakespeare (Henry VIII)
Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
- Billie Holiday
