1. ‘The best fighter is never angry.’ – Lao Tzu

2. ‘If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.’ – Shannon L. Alder

3. ‘Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it…Don’t allow his anger to become your anger.’ – Bohdi Sanders

4. ‘Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.’ – Mitch Albom

5. ‘A heart filled with anger has no room for love.’ – Joan Lunden

6. ‘How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.’ – Marcus Aurelius

7. ‘It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.’ – Andrew Solomon

8. ‘Don’t get mad. Don’t get even. Do better. Much better. Rise above. Become so engulfed in your own success that you forget it ever happened.’ – Donald Driver