Thursday 13

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Quotes I Really Should Have Read 12 Hours Ago* (i.e., before I left for work)

1. Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. (Laurence J. Peter)
2. How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. (Marcus Aurelius)
3. The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry. (Anonymous)
4. My reason, the physician to my love, angry that his prescriptions are not kept, hath left me. (William Shakespeare)
5. Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage. (Babylonian Talmud)
6. Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. (William Shakespeare)
7. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. (Thomas Jefferson)
8. When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued. (Julia Cameron)
9. Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. (Aristotle)
10. Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. (Henry Ward Beecher)
11. Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. (Thomas a Kempis)
12. An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. (Publilius Syrus)
13. Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to. (Harriet Lerner)

And one to go forward with...
Our patience will achieve more than our force. --Edmund Burke
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*and probably need to re-read before I leave for work on Saturday