Quotation Explorer - 'Anger'

Poverty advances discrimination and corruption because society classifies the rich and poor. Poverty augments anger, selfishness, hatred and envy among the people.Poverty entwined with desperation ends up in violence." - , an excerpt from If I Could Tell You - Angelica Hopes
I only knew to treat the male asshole as if it had a grenade buried inside of it that could ignite a deadly explosion of anger, trauma, and sexual confusion. - Maggie Young
Never strike out of anger if at all possible, this will give your enemy the advantage and strengthen his resolve and psyche - Soke Behzad Ahmadi
Anger is a fire that burns you from both ends. - Debasish Mridha
We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes. We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should others be the object of our anger? - Śāntideva
Guard your heart against anger, bitterness, envy, jealousy….! - Lailah Gifty Akita
Great anger is more destructive than the sword
Avoid anger; embrace kindness. - Debasish Mridha
This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger. - Helen Oyeyemi
You have strength born of years of grief and anger... The strength of a man denied revenge. - Compton Gage
Anger - justifiable anger in the face of oppression and prejudice - should not be mistaken for hatred. - Christina Engela
Jealously would kill you from inside, if you water the plant of jealousy with anger instead of hard work - Paolo Coelho
There's a war between two wolves inside everybody. One is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies and ego. The other's good. It's love, peace, beauty, happiness, truth, hope, joy, humility, kindness, and empathy. "Who wins...?""The one you feed". - MK Asante
Don't let the sun go down upon your anger; forgive each other, help each other, and begin again tomorrow. - Louisa May Alcott
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words. - Dr. Joyce Brothers
The purge is made to release the aggression, anger, rage everything just in on place. - Deyth Banger
When we forgive, our emotions evolve and reveal the futility of carrying the baggage of anger, antipathy, hostility and hatred. We emerge out of those dark corridors of fear, angst and insecurity. - Balroop Singh
The ability to do perform Reiki comes from an internal freedom. The power to be free from stress, tension, and anger. - Nikita Dudani
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again. - Sharon Salzberg
Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind. - Evan Esar
There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sprouting of the second group and transforming the first group. - Amit Ray
They said" Your Anger could Destroy you.." Even if my Brain designed it to Destroy my enemy. - Srinivas Shenoy
A writer draws a road map where readers walks with their love, joy, anger, tears, and dismay. Every story, every poem, has different meanings for every reader. - Debasish Mridha
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. - Jack Layton
If your anger is the result of your sadness or if your sadness is result of your anger , you are undoubtedly suffering from disorientation. - Aparna Pathak
Never be too angry beyond repairs. Anger is nothing good to be part of your tributes. Are you angry with someone? The sun is sinking, just drop it now. - Israelmore Ayivor
Anger is the prelude to courage. - Eric Hoffer
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. - Yoda
Where there is a blanket of hate, uplift it with the strong arms of love. If there is pain, heal it with your kind words and gentle touch. In the face of anger, stay so calm and unfazed that anger leaves the room. - Pooja Ruprell
Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fearis an orphaned part of usseeking joy, some disowned shadow wanting to returnto the lightand homeof ourselves. - Jacob Nordby
Anger does not change the fact. The will to take control is everything. - Compton Gage
Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive? - Roseanne Barr
Anger is a fire of resentment which will burn the bearer and not the receiver. - Debasish Mridha
Anger carries a person in your mind forever.The day U can stand in the room with some1 without being affected is the day you truly moved on - Adapted
Fill your heart with kindness and forgiveness, there will be no stress, anger, or bitterness. - Debasish Mridha
Behind anger, is hidden the cemetery. (Derrière la colère, - Se cache le cimetière.) - Charles de Leusse
A decision made in anger, however it was rationalized, was poisoned with bias from its origins. The very fact that I had thought of the option wrathfully rendered it unusable. - Game of Champions
Your anger is self-damaging. - Sanchita Pandey
Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a watermill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good. - Mehmet Murat ildan
If I were to complain about complainers. Am I a culprit comparable conveyor? Let go of the anger. It’s crimping my colossal contentment. - JT Sanz
I could turn up the volume on their songs and that loudness matched all my panic and fear, anger and emotions that seemed up until that point to be uncontrollable, even amorphous. - Carrie Brownstein
A river flows full of cries... phases of anger... phases of joy ... Different kinds... Yet a river always ends in an ocean of feelings... But for some… just lake to rejuvenate souls - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K
Silence can symbolize many things; fear, anger, sadness, or shame. But one thing that silence cannot symbolize is happiness because silence is dark, silence is quiet, silence is everything happiness should not acquire. - Keysi
My truth is mine alone; as yours is yours. For this reason, I hear and see you free of judgement, fear, anger, and resentment. This is my promise to you. This is my gift to me. - E. Patricia Conner
When you pray to God asking for something, make sure you are asking for the things that are driven by love and passion rather than the ones that are pushed by hate and anger. - Sameh Elsayed
There's nothing like seeing a photo of yourself in happier days speeding toward your face in anger. - Laura Moncur
Keep your heart and soul free from anger. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Feeling someone else’s anger is bad; being left alone is worse. - David Levithan
Anger may not have been derived from the Hindi word 'angaar' meaning Fire...however coincidentally both are equally destructive. - ketan r shah
Free your hearts of anxiety, pain and anger, to have peace within your heart and soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita
A little fire of anger can burn everything that you have built over your lifetime. - Debasish Mridha
Don't let anger consume you if you're longing for true love. - Janice Valencia Capulso
Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth. - Cato the Elder
Why is it OK to love without a reason, but anger requires justification? - R. Stevens
Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this? - Dada Bhagwan
Anger is a revenge that can never be controlled. - Nadair Desmar
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop. - Mahatma Gandhi
Never take literally what is said out of anger! They are said just to hurt you sometimes the opposite could be true! - Ravi Samuel
Anger is a super weapon given by god...with a catch...the more you use it the less effective it becomes. - ketan r shah
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. - Hannah More
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to. - Harriet Lerner
Quick decisions made in anger, usually end in regret. - Elizabeth Bourgeret
MIND is not a dustbin to keep anger, hatred and jealousy. But it is the treasure box to keep, love happiness and sweet memories. - Swami Vivekananda
Anger always has a reason but love is always the answer. - Debasish Mridha
I want to study human... madness... cruelty... agression... anger... craziness... and other features... I want to find how far can they get! - Deyth Banger
Our fates are locked together. It would be foolish of me to anger God by leaving you. - Mark Tompkins
Anger - a beast within us that needs taming. - Saru Singhal
Sometimes anger pave the path of success. - Kishore Bansal
In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well. - James Dyson
I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears and anger at injustice. I write so the world will imagine and wonder at crazy, incredible truths. I write to have a tiny bit of influence on a universal conscience. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Anger and fear are disabling trait behaviours, instilled in the opponent with care. - Moonn Tzu
Anger is how you feel. Hate is not letting your anger flow - Tambré Bryant
It is useless to fight fire with fire. When you’re offended, it is instinctive to want to fight back in anger. - Auliq Ice
They say grief occurs in five stages. First there's denial followed by anger. Then comes bargaining, depression and acceptance. But grief is a merciless master. Just when you think you're free you realize you never stood a chance. - Emily Thorne
When anger rises, think of the consequences. - Confucius
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. - Zora Neale Hurston
Try to control your anger before it burns your life. - Debasish Mridha
Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love. - Athol Fugard
Love is greater than anger. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Anger suffocates your mind, body and soul. The ability to love amidst anger is a true blessing and it transcends our existence! - Monica Chrisandtras Hines
Two hot, close rooms thus became my world; and a crippled old woman, my mistress, my friend, my all. Her service was my duty - her pain, my suffering - her relief, my hope - her anger, my punishment - her regard, my reward. - Charlotte Brontë
Here, there's no anger, no loss, not even fear. When he's battling, everything has a crystal clarity, just action and reaction. - Anonymous
If what you want doesn’t occupy space, time and energy in your life. If it doesn’t involve some frustration, exasperation, anger, sadness, or fear; then I dare say: It’s not real! It’s a fairy tale! - Akiroq Brost
Anger is temporary insanity. - John S.C. Abbott
Anger is an indication of pain and pain is an indication of sadness that grows inward and creates a lot of discomfort. - Euginia Herlihy
Anger is brittle fire that consumes and breaks whatever it engulfs. - Tish Grier
Raise your love so high that anger cannot reach it. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Anger swirled in him, a tempest readying her strike. And like a helpless vessel caught in her fury, he felt himself dashed against the rocks without mercy. - V.S. Carnes
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. - Elizabeth I
Hatred - The anger of the weak.
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. - Cherie Carter-Scott
Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy. - Roy T. Bennett
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.
One of the greatest lessons we can learn in life is how to keep mute when the boiling ring of anger is dropped within us - Ikechukwu Izuakor
Peace and anger cannot coexist.in fact there is a high negative corelation , the higher the anger lesser the peace and lesser the anger higher the peace...Zero anger is probably bliss. - ketan r shah
One of life's great challenges is getting out of your own way after a divorce or breakup... Heartache and anger make you feel like enemies, but your children need you to be a team. Unfortunately, few rise to this challenge, and the children pay an emotional debt they did not incur. - Steve Maraboli
The best songs are written through our anger. Even though feelings change over time, our lyrics will always remain inside the song as a way of reminding us how far and how much stronger we've become since then. - Kastle King
Anger is the fire of the soul, love is the language of the heart ... - Stephen Richards
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do. - Peter McWilliams
Three things to give up to be happier: 1. Never complain, condemn, or criticize. 2. Give up anger, fear, and resentment. 3. Give up the desire to impress and control others. - Debasish Mridha
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. - Leo Buscaglia
Anger always has a reason but there are no good reasons to be angry. - Debasish Mridha
Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need. - Marshall B. Rosenberg
Anger is the only thing to put off until tomorrow. - Czech Proverb
Anger is a brief madness. - Horace
But sadness was familiar; sadness was manageable. It didn't transform her, the way the raging anger did. She could remain herself and still feel this aching grief. - Aprilynne Pike
What are you wrapped up in?' Roan whispered. Her anger and frustration had shifted to a sympathy that grated Vhalla.'I'm simply learning where I'm meant to be.' It was the only response because it was the truth. - Elise Kova
Healthy people know not to gorge on anger. At the end of the day, they walk away. They choose to end it. And it’s an easier choice the next time. - Steve Goodier
Although you may spend your life killing, you will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain. - Nāgārjuna
Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades- except love. Love is forever and there after, even when we've fallen to our graves. - Lee Argus
May you transform your pain, anger, and hurt into wisdom, kindness, and love. - Leta B.
People think that those who commit suicide are against life—they are not. They are too lusty for life, they have great lust for life; and because life is not fulfilling their lust, in anger, in despair, they destroy themselves. - Osho
I'm gonna take all my sadness, frustration, anger and energy and channel it into becoming the best possible student.I AM GOING TO BECOME A LEARNING MACHINE. - Peter Rogers
Anger can be defeated by controlling our emotions without upsetting the nerves. - Munia Khan
Anger is so easy to get into and so hard to get out of. - Regena Thomashauer
He who fears alcohol MUST also fear ANGER, for anger is more powerful and dangerous than the alcohol. - Oppong Amankwaa
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are. - Cherie Carter-Scott
I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry. - Maxine Waters
Anger is a poison that affects our thoughts and creates a fire that burns our sweetness of heart. - Debasish Mridha
The best vaccine against anger is to watch others in its throes. - Marcel Proust
Once you’re on the negative side of the house, you're more accessible to the rooms where other negative moods hang out—irritability, frustration and anger. You're not directly there, but it's a short walk. - Simon Rego
The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with sadness, joy, happiness, anger, wealth, poverty, etc. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Anger should be your servant, not your master - Alok Jagawat
Do not allow yourself to be aggravated by someone’s anger. Stay calm. - Lailah Gifty Akita
My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break. - William Shakespeare
I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be. - Erica Eisdorfer
Love, love, love, love is all you can do, even in the face of bitterness, pain, anger, confusion, it's the only thing to keep you steady and stop you biting back. - Jay Woodman
Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind. - Anthony Liccione
The anger from jealousy makes you powerful and full of energy. - anthony grime
We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration. - Alanis Morissette
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses. - William Arthur Ward
Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect. - Euripides
Remember, confrontation is about reconciliation and awareness, not judgement or anger. - Dale Partridge
Every day we are challenged by events, people and situations that are extremely frustrating and anger producing. - Kwame Addai
The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. - lois bujord
Madame Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules.The Doctor: Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many. - Steven Moffat
Inner turbulence leads to anger. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. - Anonymous
In times of division and strife, build bridges to the hearts of those clouded by anger, hurt, hatred, and ignorance, so you can help open and understand their minds and hearts, and they can understand yours. - Imania Margria
Anger met with anger only increases enmity rather than diffusing a tense situation. Anger, in turn, gives birth to hate. In such cases the wisest thing to do is not to engage through emotion. Emotions are self-centered and denying them spares animosity. - Donna Lynn Hope
We, hurt by ourselves, keento be hurters and keento be hurt back deep inside.We, like weapons laidbeside anger asleep. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Anger is distress. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Love is louder than anger, even in silence. - Matshona Dhliwayo
War is food and drink and disease and patience and anger and hate and cold and stealth and terror as well as sweet silver and bitter iron and the glitter of arms in the sun or under the moon. - Miles Cameron, The Dread Wyrm
I would say about 80% of my writing (including posts and blogs), has to do with unresolved anger and that's just fine with me - Lori Lesko
Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear. - Jalaluddin Rumi
It is okay of talking about the past, as long as there's no bitterness and anger. It only gives you a heart attack. It won't change the past either. - Ann Marie Aguilar
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. - Bible
Anger is one of the sinners of the soul. - Thomas Fuller
If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. - Korean Proverb
Talking about abstract things is important. Having big, wild conversations about concepts like art, music, time travel, and dreams makes it much easier when you’ll eventually need to talk about things like anger, sadness, pain, and love. - Tom Burns
Forgive and set your self free. When we forgive, we heal our own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It's like spring cleaning for our heart. - Angie karan
Acknowledging and being concious that you are being angry is a battle half won against anger. - ketan r shah
Your anger is the fire which can burn the whole world, but forgiveness is the water which can extinguish the fire and bloom the flowers of peace and love. - Debasish Mridha
I know for an absolute fact that if I ate a meal at one of Gordon Ramsay's restaurants, I would be able to taste his anger. - John Cheese
Shutting out all external objects, fixing the vision between the eyebrows, making even the inward and outward breaths, the sage who has controlled the senses, mind and understanding, who is intent upon liberation, who has cast away desire, fear and anger, he is ever freed. - The Bhagavad Gita
Do we really want to be rid of our resentments, our anger, our fear? Many of us cling to our fears, doubts, self-loathing or hatred because there is a certain distorted security in familiar pain. It seems safer to embrace what we know than to let go of it for fear of the unknown. ( Book/page 33) - Narcotics Anonymous
The fundamental fact about all of us is that we’re alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real root cause of all our anger and pain and despair. And you can either run from this fact or, by way of love, you can embrace it. - Jonathan Franzen
why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
Anger slowly.Forgive quickly.Trust cautiously.Love easily. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from. - Alain de Botton
You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to see the light. - Shannon L. Alder
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words. - Joyce Brothers
Man kills, the things he love the most, sometimes by the virtue of hatred, crime, anger and war and sometimes by dramatizing his activities. But he is not aware that his killings are his own self-image. - Santosh Kalwar
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us that injury that provokes it. - Seneca
To respond to anger is to attempt to slay a dragon with a wet noodle.The best you can do is hope the anger remembers the love.~ - Bluenscottish
Never glorify anger; as anger is only destructive! You can never be happy destroying something! - Ravi Samuel
The greatest remedy for anger is delay. - Thomas Paine
...anger is a waste of energy. Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive an engine. - Winston S. Churchill
My first reaction, every time I delve into an episode of history that I don’t know very much about, is anger that my teachers never taught me about it. - Steven Spielberg
I shall now express my utter disgust and anger with you through the piano. - Akira Sasanuma
Anger... agony... so familiar emotions. - Deyth Banger
A curious part of the human psyche is that the moment that a person presumed to be in danger is discovered to be safe, everyone's anxiety turns into anger. - Monica Fairview
Show me a culture where honesty is considered ridiculous, where nobody's ever accountable for anything, where anger gets admired as a sign of strength, and I'll show you a place where misery is permanent - Anthony Steyning
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. - Carl Sandburg
Learn to be assertive without anger attached to it. - Nikki Rowe
With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred. - Michelle Cruz-Rosado
The world needs more anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. - Bede Jarrett
Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart. - Jim Henson
Anger is enough to destroy you - Noormohammad Bhuayan
Anger is the fire of ego which tries to burn the beauties of heart and soul. - Debasish Mridha
Religion is a belief or a curriculum. It can't hurt people or start wars. People hurt people, and people start wars. The real problem is the narcissist, for he can't control his anger and believes no one else is entitled to their own opinion or beliefs . - Mamie Thornbrue
When we want to see someone in a certain way, we find a way, but when we don't we have to wake up and see who they truly are and not what our pain or anger chooses to believe. - Shannon L. Alder
Let them express their anger and hatred; listen to them and smile. - M.F. Moonzajer
You need your Anger to fuel youYou need your Rage to control youand you need your Heart to constrain youOnce you have achieved that, you will be the closest thing to an Immortal Invincible being, that has Ever walked upon this earth. - Faruk DML
You are the sunshine, so raise above the clouds of anger, hate, resentment and intolerance to fill the world with beauty of love. - Debasish Mridha
Treat your anger with the utmost respect and tenderness, for it is no other than yourself. - Thich Nhat Hanh
Anger is the wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. - Bodie Thoene
Anger is smaller than the one behind him. (La colère, c'est plus petit - Que celui derrière lui) - Charles de Leusse
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. - Epictetus
If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class. - Gina Barreca
I've known how to control my anger, but that doesn't mean I don't feel it. Page 190 - Sonia Sotomayor Goodreads is over capacity. You can never have too many books but Goodreads can some
Controlled anger leads to positive action. - Todd Stocker
Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life. - Rachel Naomi Remen
Anger is a tiger that can eat you alive if you are not careful. - Debasish Mridha
She was certain this trip would be a landslide of regret, anger and resentment, crumbling around a day of sadness. - Shannyn Leah, Lakeshore Secrets
in a relationship that is successful, communication has to be totally open and honest, without judgement or anger. and before you end a relationship that is very important to you, you have to be able to say to yourself that you seeked every avenue to make it work. - Anonymous
Breathe a word of prayer, not anger. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Beauty for wisdom, lust for love, youth for happiness, anger for understanding and denial for acceptance are all things I gladly trade on my journey through life. Who say's getting old is a bad thing? - J.S. Riley
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. - Buddha
Both sadness and anger are the two sides of same coin. Sadness is supressed anger, while anger is expressed sadness. Both sadness and anger are state of unhappiness, which are often because lack of self-love. - Vishwas Chavan
The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination? - Mahatma Gandhi
Starting your day with anger is like locking yourself in jail. The outside world is enjoying life, while you’re locked in your own frustration. - Ron Baratono
Don't Raise your Anger into a War, Raise it into a Plan - Noormohammad Bhuayan
one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill. - Patricia Highsmith
A moment of Patience in a moment of Anger saves a thousand moments of Regret. - Ali Ibn Abu Talib
It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the arts. To sublimate our frustration and anger into something beautiful. Freud called sublimation a virtuous defence mechanism because it is in the arts that we can find our humanity. - Kamand Kojouri
Forgive your self and others by removing the anger that stands in your way and replace it with love, to heal your soul and your spirit. - Angie karan
There is no passion so much transports thesincerity of judgement as doth anger - Michel de Montaigne
Christianity, true Christianity, is experienced when we crucify the anger, pride, vanity and lust that dwells within ourselves and consciously replace it with the sacrificial love, humility, modesty and chasteness of the One who so many profess to believe in and follow. - - Jason Neville Versey
You can never see my tears behind my anger and smile. The only thing you can see is my respect for you, because you deserve for it.... - V Partap Singh Salathia
Fear, anger, jealousy, hatred of self and others are the outcomes of the lack of connectivity with your inner self. Connecting with your inner self and awakening your inner sensuality is not a luxury anymore, but it has become the necessity. - Vishwas Chavan
Keep cool. Anger is not an argument. - Ziad K. Abdelnour
Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing. - Thomas S. Monson
Control your anger because it is just ONE Letter away from danger. - Auliq Ice
We tend to think that God doesn’t struggle with mundane things like frustrations and anger. But one of his major points of frustrations is WHEN there is no man to stand for justice, fairness and equity - Sunday Adelaja
If necessity is the mother of invention, then surely greed must be the father. Children of this odd couple are named: Laziness, Envy, Greed, Jr., Gluttony, Lust, Anger and Pride. - John R. Dallas Jr.
Negative people feed off of your anger, let them starve. - Samantha M. King
Virtues are formed by prayer.Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy.Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven. - St. Ephrem of Syria
Anger and resentment are problems for our understanding and vision. They happen when we are away from our real purpose and mission. - Debasish Mridha
If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods. - Epictetus
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. - Robert Ingersoll
Darkness... When everything that you know and love... is taken from you so harshly... all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge... and no one can save you. - Masashi Kishimoto
I just wanted silence, not rage, not anger, not going trouble... One simple thing silence! - Deyth Banger
Without patience, without absence of anger, no one can be called a politician. - Stendhal
If I hear the phrase "selfie" one more time, I'll have to enroll myself in anger management classes. - Rebecca McNutt
Darkness and anger, when combined, are their own master. - S.R. Ford
No passion disturbs the soundness of our judgement as anger does. - Michel de Montaigne
Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat. - Emily Dickinson
He who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent a day of sorrow. - Tryon Edwards
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. - Albert Einstein
Take it from Richard, poor and lame, what's begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin
To don't forget and marriage, the happiness is the from 20 up to 30% out of the 100% the other percentage is anger, and very negative sides. So far most people are dead. - Deyth Banger
An emotion like anger that's an automatic response lasts just ninety seconds from the moment it's triggered until it runs its course. One and a half minutes, that's all. When it lasts any longer, which it usually does, it's because we've chosen to rekindle it. - Pema Chödrön
He suffered," added Athos softly. "But not like you." He brought his mouth closer. "No one suffers as beautifully as you." There it was, in the corner of Holland's mouth, the crease of his eye. Anger. Pain. Defiance. Athos smiled, victorious. - V.E. Schwab
My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual. - Phyllis Diller
Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void. - Barnett Newman
Anger and resentment are the cancer of our mind. To be cured, inject love in your heart and be kind. - Debasish Mridha
To ease the pain, erase the anger. - Anthony Liccione
We all have anger in our hearts at times from past situations or even present. These thoughts hurt one’s self more than anything. Without the effort of washing those thoughts from our minds there can be no inner peace. - Ron Baratono
The truth is this: People that give you focus, energy and anger do care. If you were nothing then you wouldn't be able to affect them. Behind every over reaction was first the thought that your opinion mattered and your respect was once of value or you wouldn't get the response you got. - Shannon L. Alder
Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again. Anger is akin to confessing their sin to God, dissatisfied that he hasn't done something and placing myself in his position as judge. - Paul David Tripp
To say I had some pent-up anger would be like saying Britney Spears had minor impulse-control issues. - Molly Harper
Anger is action without thoughts. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Your anger and emotional outbursts usually result when someone penetrates to the core of what you do not like about yourself or still cannot accept. - Bill George Peter Sims
There are three things that stop people from becoming their best, "fear" "anger" and "greed." The antidote to fear is action, the cure for anger is gratitude and the medicine to greed is love. - Sesan Kareem
Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem. - William Shakespeare
The ruler cannot mobilize the army out of personal anger. The general cannot engage in battle because of personal frustration. Anger can revert to happiness, annoyance can revert to joy, but a vanquished state cannot be revived, the dead cannot be brought back to life.
On Collateral Damage: "Every limb lost, every hovel burned, every wife left husbandless, and every child orphaned created ripples of anger and resentment. Create enough of them, and we'll one day wind up with a wave that will wash us off the map. - Chris Holm
We all have our times of anger. It’s when we hang onto that anger it becomes a poison to our heart and mind. - Ron Baratono
Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then you will be read to fight the enemy you can see. - أبو حامد الغزالي
Anger kills logical thinking and logical thinking kills anger....the choice is yours - ketan r shah
Fighting is easier than loving, just as giving in to anger is easier than self-control. - Donna Lynn Hope
Don't take crucial decisions when you are depressed or filled with anger, because then the decision is not made by you. - Saga Valsalan
Ah, sweet alcohol. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger. - Randy K. Milholland
Every thought, word, and action plants seeds in the garden of your life. Are you planting seeds of love, compassion, peace, or those of anger, resentment and dissatisfaction? Choose wisely and tend your garden well. - John Bruna
There is no need returning anger to those who made your past horrible, do not think of making them feel bitter, maybe a help from you can just make them ashame and miserable, and can probably change their attitude. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Empty yourself of past resentment, anger, and sadness to fill it with love and pure happiness. - Debasish Mridha
A real woman's blood pressure will go up when another man touch her, in anger of me losing my dignity and not because she likes it. - Unarine Ramaru
Strong anger can only make you weaker than you already are - Munia Khan
Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope. - Robert Veninga
Tears terrify people more than anger because they attach to your heart and leave angels of mercy to shout in your mind. - Shannon L. Alder
Well don't you know the sound of anger brings a dark result.And every insult is like a lightning bolt. - Third Eye Blind
Anger is the only antidote strong enough to counter grief. - Rauwolfia
Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue. - George Horne
Still, he was angry--that particular anger of humans defied by the persistence of nature. - Cutter Nick
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be. - Peter McWilliams
Anger is a bad counselor. - French Proverb
Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the 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
Those who have anger, they try to take control others with the heat of anger and those who do not have anger are able to take control of others with their strength of character known as sheel. Even it can take control of animals (with it’s strength)!!! - Dada Bhagwan
When we find that we have been aroused to anger we must call for God's help like the apostles when they were tossed about by the wind and storm on the waters. He will command your passions to cease and there will be a great calm. - Francis de Sales
Be kind to yourself. Remember that when you abuse yourself, you will experience the anger, regret, and apathy of the bully as well as the depression, anxiety, and insecurity of the victim. Whatever you do, be kind to yourself. - Vironika Tugaleva
Mother Earth taught me that my angertoward nature was unfounded.And she therefore invited me to open my heart to thispossibility: so too may be my anger toward man. - Anasizi Foundation Good Buffalo Eagle
You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger. - Gautama Buddha
I am not an angry girlBut it seems like I’ve got everyone fooledEvery time I say something they find hard to hearThey chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear - Ani DiFranco
Anger is like sex urge, once gratified, the inner voice calls you a stinking fool. - Michael Bassey Johnson
He missed her, a longing that tore deep into him. He resented her He wondered endlessly what might have happened. He changed, curled more inwardly into himself. He was, by turns, inflamed by anger, twisted by confusion, withered by sadness. - Chimanda Ngozi Adichie
If you have a drop of violence or anger in your mind, it can ignite a candle and be the source of violence, so be kind. - Debasish Mridha
The best answer to answer to anger is silence.
Anger dulls the sharpness of mind, hardens the softness of feelings, and replaces the sweetness of the world with bitterness. - Debasish Mridha
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. - Maya Angelou
We violated each other’s boundaries with verbal missiles of anger disguised in the pretense of just kidding. - David W. Earle
Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted. - Martin Luther
Always remember when it comes to family arguments and disputes. "Blood is thicker than anger. - Stanley Victor Paskavich
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. - Joan Lunden
Sing, Muse, of the anger of Achilles, son of Peleus... - Homer
May it be a postive or a negative emotions, they are all needed in every person's well being. Like, there is sadness in every joy, disgust in every anger or fear in every surprise. - Karl Gornal
Anger is the ego’s way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable. - Alan Cohen
Anger is an agro-chemical that makes self-destruction to grow faster. Like a stone thrown upward, all angry people eventually fall down into the dirty ditch of sorrowful self-harm and a pathetic loss of real-self. - Israelmore Ayivor
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. - Bible
Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness. - James Thurber
Guard your heart against anger. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Anger is the most effective inspiration. - Amit Kalantri
Whenever i see someone fighting me for no reason, I'm always highly impressed that God has instigated his anger against me, just as he did to pharoah against the Israelites, so as to cast me away into my promise land of fulfilment. - Michael Bassey Johnson
precious laughing time is wasted, because I have to put up with Satan's stupid minions who smile without attempting to anger somebody else - leave us alone already. - A Gentlemen
Transferring my anger and pain onto paper turns it into something tangible, something that can be shredded or burned, or at the very least, sealed shut in a box. ~Call Me Tuesday - Leigh Byrne
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Hatred is the anger of the weak.
Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you. - Jason Mraz
Control your anger, be calm. - Lailah Gifty Akita
You are truly classy if you manage to speak politely in spite of anger boiling inside you. - Saru Singhal
Fits of anger, vexation,and bitterness against ourselves tend to pride and they spring from no other source than self-love, which is disturbed and upset at seeing that it is imperfect. - Francis de Sales
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. - Lord Chesterfield
Anger is a deception. You engage it thinking you'll feel better but ultimately it drills you deeper in the hurt. - TemitOpe Ibrahim
Anger has great strength,but no brains.Greed has many hands,but no heart.Fear has many titles,but no honor.Hate has many forms,but no soul. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Never make a decision while in the state of anger. - Abdullah II of Jordan
If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees. - Lao Tzu
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. - Michael Jackson
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One. - Benjamin Franklin
Anger is the fuel of resentment which can burn for a lifetime. - Debasish Mridha
When you continue in anger, you throw away the keys to the door of your heart; others can't come in and you can't get out. - Paul Bamikole
Do you prefer to be with people who glow with love and compassion or those who burn with anger fueled by religious doctrine or political ideology? - Jeff Rasley
Freeze when you are angry: your brain needs time to cleanse the anger! - Ravi Samuel
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. - Chinese Proverb
Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control. - Democritus
When you forgive those that hurt you, they no longer have control over your future happiness. Their anger keeps them a prisoner to your past, while you enjoy the present. - Shannon L. Alder
Your anger and resentment can destroy peace but love can fill the world with peace and happiness. - Debasish Mridha
Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. - Hannah More
Do not let your divorce define you and the rest of your life. Let go of anger and embrace the future possibilities of infinitesimal happiness - Divorce Goddess
Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do. - Peter McWilliams
Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way. - Gordon Atkinson
Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve. - Veronica Roth
Anger without power is folly. - German Proverb
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. - Mark Twain
Peace and love are just as contagious as anger and fear. Your mindset affects the people around you and perpetually changes the world. The question is - what kind of world are you creating? What new society are you thinking into existence? - Vironika Tugaleva
This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins. - Shannon L. Alder
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world. - Arundhati Roy
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. - James Thurber
Your anger is fun and sulk is love. I shall ever love you. - M.F. Moonzajer
Life is too short for anger, resentment, hostility and "should have." It is too short to put off doing what brings you joy. Live each day as if it were your last, because one day it will be. - Julie-Anne
When bad things happen or you don't get your own way, if you can open your heart to compassion instead of shunting it down in anger, you're going to create more light. - Barrie Dolnick
When I left, they were stuck with the burden of finding someone else to blame for their life... Pointing their anger everywhere, but never looking in the mirror... Continuing the cycle that led to their misery. - Steve Maraboli
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. - G. M. Trevelyan
Realize this your anger with God does not drive a wedge between you and Him. It is your silence that drives the wedge. - Prodigal Life - Pauline Creeden
Don't die famous. The things they will say you did and said would make you rise up in anger if you were alive. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action. - Pythagoras
Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned. - Buddha
I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
103When we try to be something that we are not, we become the slave of a rigid, fixed mind, following a rule about how things have to be. The violence and the anger in us remain unnoticed, because we are caught in our pictures of how we should be. - Charlotte Joko Beck
Time does have a way of softening most things. Anger, hate, and even loss are often diluted by the passage of time. And memories, well they become more precious as days go by . . . until one day the cup that seemed half-empty, incredibly, becomes half-full. - Cynthia Mock Burroughs
We shouldn't hide behind anger or anonymity when reliving the past because all that’s happened and all those who belong in our past are part of our story. - Melizena
If you have no anger inside your heart, you will have no enemy outside in the world. - Debasish Mridha
The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights. - Ron Pearce
Don't let the anger control you turning you into someone whom you are not. - http www.thecounsellingparadigm.sg
He saw her red eyes filled with tears of anger. "Tell me why this rage?" He asked holding her in his arms. "Why do you fence for yourself so much?She sighed and muttered, "Because all I really want is nothing but to be proved wrong. - Sanhita Baruah
Do not allow yourself to be blinded by fear and anger. Everything is only as it is. - Yuki Urushibara
Anger is the immune system of the soul. - Stefan Molyneux
Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat. - Emily Dickinson
Can we just be grateful for beauty & joy, fascination & tolerance, humour & love, nature & grace, and simply release any anger and pains? - Jay Woodman
Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with you! - C. JoyBell C.
Don’t live your life with anger and hate in your heart as you will only be hurting yourself more than the people you hate. - Robert Tew
Beware anger is contagious...Don't allow other's anger to become yours - Prabakaran Thirumalai
A moment of anger is a moment of resentment and madness which can burn your heart. - Debasish Mridha
My anger is like some rudimentary, single-celled beast, an exploding virus of fury that paralyses rational thought and blinds me to everything except one single goal... - Candace Bushnell
Anger will always stand in the way of your dreams. Don't let anyone take your dreams. - Sue Fitzmaurice
When someone reacts violently and aggressively, it only goes to demonstrate the lack of truth, trust and confidence in oneself and issue that we are defending. It rather portrays the guilt, shame and self anger for defending the indefensible. - Vishwas Chavan
Piety /pi•e•ty/ (modern definition)1. When you use Christ’s teachings to put someone in their place out of anger and self-righteousness. It is the number two reason people leave the faith. The first is pride. - Shannon L. Alder
Do you think that anger is a sincere emotion, or just the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain? - Andrea Gibson
For the health of my mind, body, and spirit, I choose to walk with:Gratitude not Envy;Faith not Worry;Confidence not Fear;Kindness not Anger. - Charles F. Glassman
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last. - Greg Evans
Because if I let myself feel the pain and the anger, I think it might kill me. Or I might kill someone else. I know it's wrong to feel that way about God and I know its's wrong to not feel anything. I hate it. I don't hate God. I hate not loving Him. - Susan Beth Pfeffer
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