“To know that you are a prisoner of your mind, that you live in an imaginary world of your own creation is the dawn of wisdom. To want nothing of it, to be ready to abandon it entirely, is earnestness.”
~ Nisargadatta

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
~ Socrates

“The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.”
~ Ramana Maharshi

“Freedom lies not in external circumstances; freedom resides in the heart. When you have attained wisdom, who can enslave you?”
~ Anthony de Mello

“Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.”
~ Buddha

“Some come to the spiritual life because of suffering, some in order to understand life; some come through a desire to achieve life’s purpose, and some come who are men and women of wisdom. Unwavering in devotion, always united with me, the man or woman of wisdom surpasses all the others.”
~ Bhagavad Gita

“He who, before he leaves his body, learns to surmount the promptings of desire and anger is a saint and is happy.”
~ Bhagavad Gita

“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die”
~ Buddha

“Anger resteth in the bosom of fools.”
~ Ecclesiastes

“Remember, if you are hurt or angered by something said or done by another, it isn’t their fault. It’s because something is wrong with YOU!”
~ J. Krishnamurti

“Forgiveness is the greatest weapon, because a saint so armed is unperturbable he can give up anger immediately.”
~ Neem Karoli Baba

“Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.”
~ Eckhart Tolle

“Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion, you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.”
~ Adyashanti

“There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it’s always been.”
~ Rumi

“I found that love freed me back into the ocean of love and my righteous anger didn’t do that. And I would rather be free than right.”
~ Ram Dass

“There is no doubt that anger, lust, and greed are evils. Why, then, has God created them? In order to create saints. A man becomes a saint by conquering the senses. Is there anything impossible for a man who has subdued his passions?”
~ Ramakrishna

“Unless you really awaken you can never make this world a better place in which to live. Why? Due to the fact that you are the universe right now, just the way you are! Therefore, if you are filled with anger, animosity, greed, avarice, and the rest of those things, so is the world! You have created the world. The world is an emanation of your own mind. What you think of yourself you think of the world. If you are filled with fear then world frightens you. If you are filled with greed you believe everyone else is greedy. The world is a reflection of you, that’s all it is.”
~ Robert Adams

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
~ 1 Corinthians 13 4-7