A Quotes
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“Anger for the sake of anger leads us nowhere. It destroys our ability to be wise and discerning about a situation.”
Source: These Viable Ornaments
“Anger gets a bad rap. We have heard that anger is not acceptable for most of our lives. We hear that it is undignified and even crazy to be angry. It’s confusing because we often grow up in a household with a very angry person, but we are told we can never be angry. This continues in adulthood as oppressed people are villainized for expressing anger even though powerful people express it all the time. But there’s an ulterior motive for these messages. If we get angry, they lose their control. In reality, they are terrified of our anger. Why? Our anger is our self-love. It is telling us that something is wrong with how we are being treated. Let it say what it needs to say. Rage on the page. The more we can express our anger, the better our boundaries will become.”
“Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Anger has a way of returning.”
Source: Drown
“Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.”
“Anger has become one of the trendiest emotions of all. In moderation it can be a righteous force for constructive change. But its hackneyed omnipresence means the vast majority of its outbreaks are trivial. The paucity of colorful obscenities is aggravated by an abundance of frivolous fury.”
Source: Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings
“Anger has been ready to be angry.”
“Anger has great strength,
but no brains.
Greed has many hands,
but no heart.
Fear has many titles,
but no honor.
Hatred has many forms,
but no soul.
Desire has great strength,
but no brains.
Agony has many hands,
but no heart.
Shame has many titles,
but no honor.
Ego has many forms,
but no soul.
Envy has great strength,
but no brains.
Malice has many hands,
but no heart.
Lust has many titles,
but no honor.
Evil has many forms,
but no soul.”
“Anger has harmful power,
rage has damaging power,
wrath has deadly power,
and retribution has disastrous power.
Forgiveness has healing power,
vengeance has destructive power,
hatred has limited power,
but love has infinite power.”
“Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper.”
“Anger, hate, blind temper, that crazy switch to destroy, all of it purified into discipline and control, the best side of boxing, Billy says.”
Source: Both Members of the Club
“Anger, he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor.
Queen Jealousy Envy waits behind him—her fire green gown sneers at the grassy ground.
Blue are the life-giving waters taken for granted, they quietly understand.
Once-happy turquoise armies lay opposite ready,
But wondering why the fight is on.
But they're all bold as love...just ask the Axis.
Red, so confident, he flashes trophies of war and ribbons of euphoria.
Orange is young, full of daring,
But very unsteady for the first go-round.
Yellow in this case is not so mellow,
In fact, I'm trying to say, it's frightened like me.
And all these emotions of mine keeps holding me back from giving my life to rainbow you.”
Source: Cherokee Mist: The Lost Writings
“Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground.”
Source: Starting At Zero: His Own Story
“Anger ignites fires or do fires ignite anger? Did the dispossessed, their rage burning within them for years, finally strike a match to enlighten an oblivious region of their dissatisfaction? Or were the fires the primary cause of the dissatisfaction, inciting through its searing heat, the fury which is colouring the country a bright crimson, as its people imitating the violence of the flames spill the blood of thousands?”
“Anger ignites illusion, illusion ignites mindlessness, mindlessness ignites fall of self-respect.”
Source: Krishna Crux
“Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant.”
Source: The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed
“Anger is a brief lunacy.”
“Anger is a brief madness.”
“Anger is a call for awareness.”
“Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not. In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control of your behavior. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane.”
“Anger is a cover for fear.”
Source: Waldmeer
“Anger is a deception. You engage it thinking you'll feel better but ultimately it drills you deeper in the hurt.”
“Anger is a destroying force. What all the world needs is its opposite-- an uplifting power.
-Laura Ingalls Wilder, As A Farm Woman Thinks (3)(November 1,1921).”
Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks
“Anger is a divinely implanted emotion. Closely allied to our instinct for right, it is designed to be used for constructive spiritual purposes. The person who cannot feel anger at evil is a person who lacks enthusiasm for good. If you cannot hate wrong, it's very questionable whether you really love righteousness.”
Source: Putting Away Childish Things
“ANGER is a feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind...”
“Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal mechanism directing it, you don't have a rocket. You have a bomb”
“Anger is a futile emotion. The man who is angry loses more energy than his victim. So if you are angry you put yourself at a disadvantage.”
Source: A Farewell to France
“Anger is a ghost.
Human is the host.”
Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“Anger is a gift. Remember that." She stood. "You gotta grasp onto it, hold it tight and use it as ammunition. You use that anger to get things done instead of just stewing in it.”
Source: Anger Is a Gift
“Anger is a good motivator.”
“Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.”
“Anger is a guest that should never be given a seat at the table; five seconds is enough time to lock the door.”
Source: The Frictionless Life: 25 Essays on Character, Virtue, and the Art of Being Unshakable: Stop Chasing the Hustle. Start Building a Soul.
“Anger is a handy term and words are tricky, as we know. What one man perceives as anger, another person - in my case the deliverer of material - is, "Don't you see it, don't you see how badly you're doing?" It's like shaking a child - which you're not supposed to do.”
“Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.”
Source: Mojave Crossing
“Anger is a legitimate feeling, one often designed for self-protection.”
Source: Surviving a Borderline Parent: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds and Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem
“Anger is a little thing. Hate is a little thing. Order is a little thing. Each of these little things has a major impact on the big picture. Right thinking, right action, and right response to the little things will help us conquer the big things, like injustice, inequality, poverty, and disorder. Until we are each able to conquer and master the little things in our lives, the big things will remain undone.”
“Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.”
“Anger is a mask that tries to hide inner weakness.”
“Anger is a means to achieve a goal. When I first read this sentence, it hit me like a ton of bricks. But at the same time, I felt that it went hand-in-hand with an idea I've grown to realize about anger. I've recognized that it is an emotion that can be utilized and transmuted into alchemy.”
Source: Esotericism With an Unconventional Soul: Exploring Philosophy, Spirituality, Science, and Mysticism
“Anger is a message from your values not a weapon for your ego.”
Source: The Calm Within the Storm: Leading Beyond Ego
“Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.”
“Anger is a momentary madness.”
“Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference.”
“Anger is a natural emotion. It arises when we perceive something unjust, unfair, or threatening. There is nothing inherently wrong in feeling angry. Emotions are part of being human. The real problem arises when we express anger impulsively—especially when it targets another person.”
Source: Critical Thinking Unchained: From Formal Logic to Dialectics of Emancipation
“Anger is a negative energy and a consuming fire that burns down the blossom called Love”
“Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.”
Source: Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated : First and Second Series, Complete in One Volume
“Anger is a partnership of two forces in which one of the partners is silent. Anger is the present and accountable emotion while Shame is the silent partner, the thought that projects in the background. Shame is the belief in eternal lack of resolve, which creates violence.”
“Anger is a passion, so it makes people feel alive and makes them feel they matter and are in charge of their lives. So people often need to renew their anger a long time after the cause of it has died, because it is a protection against helplessness and emptiness just like howling in the night. And it makes them feel less vulnerable for a little while.”
“Anger is a poison that affects our thoughts and creates a fire that burns our sweetness of heart.”
“Anger is a poison. It eats us inside. We think when we hate someone we hurt them, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others we also do to ourselves.”