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"When you are angry, don't react. Respond with consideration, kindness, and love."

"How would I explain to him that I couldn't make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I would immediately lose my inner balance? How would I explain that one of the arms of my internal scales would suddenly shoot upward? How would I explain that my hatred of him counterbalanced the weight of evil that had fallen on my youth? How would I explain that he embodied all the evils in my life? How would I explain to him that I needed to hate him?"

"Vengeance ought to be spoken through gritted teeth, spittle flying, the cords of one's soul so entangled in it that you can't let it go, even if you try. If you feel it--if you really feel it--then you speak it like it's a still-beating heart clenched in your fist and there's blood running down your arm, dripping off your elbow, and you can't let go."

"Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished."

"So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone."

"Getting angry is like burning yourself with other people's fires. Let is stop by being kind and forgiving like water."
Explore more quotes by Martha Beck

"Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can."

"Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy."

"The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are."

"If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you."

"I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light."

"I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there."
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