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Showing posts with label Wise. Show all posts

Monday, June 10, 2024

Patience and Anger: Timeless Wisdom for a Serene Life

Dryden & others explore patience & anger. Delaying anger can make it worse. Patience is powerful but unchecked can turn to rage. Learn to manage anger & rediscover patience's transformative power. 


⊙ Quote of the Day: Patience and the Perils of Untamed Fury


Patience and Anger: Timeless Wisdom for a Serene Life


Beware the fury of a patient man. 

- John Dryden -


This quote from John Dryden's poem "Absalom and Achitophel" (1681) warns us that delayed anger can be more intense and destructive. It suggests that long-simmering resentments and emotions can have unpredictable consequences when they erupt, highlighting the power of patience but also the potential for it to transform into anger if left unchecked. Embark on your anger management journey today and rediscover the transformative power of patience.


  • Abused patience turns to fury. - Thomas Fuller

  • Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury. - Francis Quarles

  • Great fury, like great whiskey, requires long fermentation. - Truman Capote



⊙ Patience and Anger: Timeless Wisdom for a Serene Life


Patience and Anger: Timeless Wisdom for a Serene Life


  • Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. - Ovid

  • I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am  not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. - Paulo Coelho

  • The finest fury is the most controlled. - Christopher Hitchens

  • Patience is when you’re supposed to get mad, but you choose to understand. - Anonymous

  • To lose patience is to lose the battle. - Mahatma Gandhi

  • Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. - Jean Jacques Rousseau




Motivational Quotes To Inspire You.

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Friday, April 26, 2024

Quote of the Day: Timely Wisdom

Quote of the Day


Quote of the Day: Timely Wisdom

An empty purse, and a finished house, make a man wisely, but too late.

- English Proverb -



Quote Meaning

This proverb is considered a British proverb and is widely used in the English-speaking world. It emphasizes the importance of maturity and wisdom, highlighting how wisdom in a given situation often comes too late. "An empty purse" and "a finished house" can be seen as empty tools or states. "An empty purse" signifies a lack of funds, while "a finished house" implies that everything is already completed. However, the realization of these states comes at a time when it's already too late, indicating that the situation has already occurred or the problem has already arisen. Ultimately, the proverb underscores the importance of acting and preparing more quickly. It speaks to the need for humans to make wiser decisions in such situations.



Motivational English Quotes To Inspire You.

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Celebrity : Seneca's 12 Quotes on Living Wisely and Succeeding

Seneca's 12 Quotes on Living Wisely and Succeeding


If a man does not know what port he is steering for,

no wind is favorable to him.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca -


The quotes of Lucius Annaeus Seneca emphasize important values and principles in human life. His quotes contain wisdom about human inner emotions and interactions with the external world.


  • Let on your effort to be directed to something, let it keep that end in view. Its not activity that disturbs people, but false conceptions of things that drive them mad. - Seneca -

  • Tranquility can be grasped except by those who have reached an unwavering and firm power of judgmentthe rest constantly fall and rise in their decisions, wavering in a state of alternately rejecting and accepting things. What is the cause of this back and forth? It's because nothing is clear and they rely on themost uncertain guide-common opinion. - Seneca -

  • Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca -

  • It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence. - Seneca -

  • Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received. - Seneca -

  • You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. -  Seneca - 

  • Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other. - Seneca -

  • All art is an imitation of nature. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca -

  • Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca - 

  • Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca -

  • Music is the salt of life. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca -




Motivational English Quotes To Inspire You.

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