A Quotes
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“Anger is a prelude to courage.”
“Anger is a response that can lead to harm if we don't evaluate what we are upset about. Ask yourself what you are afraid of, as anger is almost always fear in disguise. If we think something or someone threatens us, we feel fear-fear that we are inadequate, that our lives are out of control, that things won't go our way. Then we fight. Find out what you're upset about. We rarely are upset for the reason we think.”
Source: Success Is the Quality of Your Journey
“Anger is a result of life-alienating thinking that is disconnected from needs. It indicates that we have moved up to our head to analyze and judge somebody rather than focus on what we are needing and not getting.”
Source: Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
“Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good.”
“Anger is a sentry, stalking the edges of our boundaries and standing ready to defend them.”
“Anger is a short madness.”
“Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored.”
“Anger is a slippery slope.”
Source: Dead Man Dreaming
“Anger is a storm of the mind. On its way out, it can destroy every edifice you have built.”
“Anger is a strenuous sentiment. I never waste it willy-nilly on insects.”
Source: Woman Over World: The Novel
“Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.”
“Anger is a thief who steals away the nice moments.”
“Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.”
Source: SERMONS SEVERAL OCCASIONS
“Anger is a true messenger of wisdom, if you are willing to listen.
It whispers to you, your deepest wounds, that need healing.”
“Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.”
Source: Fallout
“Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.”
Source: The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd
“Anger is a warning signal. It points to problems.”
Source: The Language of Letting Go
“Anger is a wasted emotion.”
Source: The Dew Breaker
“Anger is a weed; hate is a tree”
“Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.”
“Anger is a wound gone mad.”
“Anger is about fairness. If it feels that you're getting ripped off or taken advantage of, that's when anger comes up. Sadness deals with loss. And I suddenly had this new revelation - it felt like to me - that those are all true, but the real, deeper reason we have emotions is to connect us together. And that felt big to me.”
“Anger is about status injury.”
“Anger is active sadness; sadness is inactive anger. They are not two things. Watch your own behaviour. When do you find yourself sad? You find yourself sad only in situations where you cannot be angry. The boss in the office says something and you cannot be angry; it is uneconomical. You cannot be angry and you have to go on smiling - then you become sad. The energy has become inactive. You come home, and with your wife you find a small thing, anything irrelevant, and you become angry.”
“Anger is almost always an emotion for people who wish to control others while simultaneously failing to control themselves.”
“Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.”
“Anger is Always built upon a foundation of fear and suffering.”
“Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.”
Source: The Works of Aristotle
“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.”
“Anger is an affected madness, compounded of pride and folly, and an intention to do commonly more mischief than it can bring to pass; and, without doubt, of all passions which actually disturb the mind of man, it is most in our power to extinguish, at least, to suppress and correct, our anger.”
“Anger is an alarm system, signaling the presence of nothing more than fear. It tells us we are working at cross-purposes to our own happiness, fearing the loss of something more than we enjoy the experience of having it.”
“Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“Anger is an emotion preeminently serviceable for the display of power.”
Source: Bodily changes in pain, hunger, fear and rage: an account of recent researches into the function of emotional excitement
“Anger is an emotion that is very energetic. It is an ideal emotion to turn it around to make it work as a positive force.”
“Anger is an essential part of being human. People are taught to deny themselves anger, and in this, they are actually opening themselves up to hate. The more you deny yourself the freedom to be angry, the more you will hate. Let yourself be angry, and hate will disintegrate, and when hate disintegrates, forgiveness prevails! The more you deny that you are angry, in attempts to be "holy" the more inhuman you will become, and the more inhuman you will become, the harder it will be to forgive.”
“Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.”
Source: PRUE AND I
“Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries.”
“Anger is an uncivil attempt to make another feel guilty or a cruel way of trying to correct them.”
“Anger is an unpleasant feeling. It is like a blazing flame that burns up our self-control and causes us to say and do things that we regret later. When someone is angry, we can see clearly that he or she is abiding in hell. Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made.”
Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
“Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.”
“Anger is better than apathy. Self-directed anger is self-abuse. Transmutation is the key, and if you are mindful, you will be able to move through these phases of pain even faster.”
Source: The Sun Rises in Eastmoor
“Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.”
Source: Race: Vintage Minis
“Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.”
“Anger is both a destructor and a catalyst for progress. When
directed at someone, it consumes you; but when directed at an issue, it is constructive energy. It then transforms as fuel that drives change – at a personal level and in your circle of influence.”
“Anger is brief madness”
“Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.”
Source: Works
“Anger is defined by philosophers as a long-standing and sometimes incurable mental ulcer, usually arising from weakness of intellect. In support of this they argue with some plausibility that this tendency occurs more in invalids than in the healthy, more in women than in men, more in the old than the young, more in those in trouble than in the prosperous.”
“Anger is distress.”
“Anger is easier than forgiveness.”
Source: Perfect
“Anger is energy, and you've got to find a place to put it that works for you.”