7/2/2008 6:44 pm
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9/11/2008 10:39 am
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Anger is active sadness. Sadness is a passive anger.
No one else "makes us angry." We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They merely put our attitude to a test. If we select a volatile attitude by becoming hostile, angry, jealous or suspicious, then we have failed the test. If we condemn ourselves by believing that we are unworthy, then again, we have failed the test.
If we care at all about ourselves, then we must accept full responsibility for our own feelings. We must learn to guard against those feelings that have the capacity to lead our attitude down the wrong path and to strengthen those feelings that can lead us confidently into a better future.
When we are angry, we should not allow our thoughts to storm us. Understand the anger is due to hidden sadness. We have to make ourself to be happy.
If you can keep your head when all around you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, then the world is yours and all that's in it."
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