Quote #17
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Gautama Buddha
- Know all things to be like this,
- People with opinions just go around bothering each other.
- This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds,
- There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
- The no-mind not-thinks no thoughts about no things.
- There is no way to Happiness. Happiness is the way.
- There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance.
- Life is no more than a dewdrop balancing on the end of a blade of grass.