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“Anger is enough to destroy you”
“Anger is essential if one is to survive this world. It’s not just a degenerate emotion that destroys everything in its path. If it were so completely destructive, why would people of every religion in the world imbue God with it? “Don’t do that! Allah will get angry,” my aunts used to say. People use it with children all the time. Be good and avoid the wrath of those with the capacity to strike you down in an instant. Your entire life may be governed by this simple principle — Be good to avoid angering those who have more power than you.”
Source: First Fires
“Anger is fear in disguise.”
“Anger is fire. It burns inside. It destroys.”
“Anger is generally seen as an unwelcome presence in our midst, however natural it may be. Although each person, and each society, is charged with how anger is to be appropriately channeled, the denial of anger, or its continuous repression, is a deep source of our psychopathology and will invariably seek its expression in a less healthful fashion.”
Source: Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker Selves
“Anger is great. It's powerful, when you need something to hold you up. Something to steel your spine. But in the dark, when you're alone with the truth, anger can't survive. The only thing that can live in the dark with you is fear.”
Source: My Soul to Steal
“Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.”
“Anger is intimately involved with both military prowess and loyalty: it provides the kind of psychic energy necessary to perform brutal acts, and so is bound up with success on the battlefield. But it also involves a socially constructed notion of worth, which is a focus for honour. When Plato argues in Republic Book IV that the characteristic emotion of an honour-lover is anger (thumos), he is recognising how central to the world of honour anger really is.”
“Anger is its own excuse and its own reward.”
“Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different.”
Source: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition
“Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice."
Constructive anger," the demon said, her voice dripping sarcasm.
Also known as passion," I said quietly. "Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.”
Source: White Night
“Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.”
Source: The Dresden Files Collection 7-12
“Anger is just sadness coming out sideways, Wren.”
“Anger is just sadness coming out sideways, Wren."
His statement renders me speechless, and tears fill my eyes. It is the most profound and relatable explanation of grief that I have ever heard. Until now, I've mostly brushed grief under the rug in favor of my anger, because how could I be sad about losing something that wasn't real? But the grief didn't stay where I'd shoved it. It got tangled up with my anger and it's been oozing at the seams this whole time.”
“Anger is just Sadness having a bad day.
Jealousy is just Sadness when she's being petty.
Suicide is sadness making her vacation plans.
Depression is just sadness in her sexiest black bra.”
“Anger is just Sadness having a bad day.
Jealousy is juts Sadness when she's being petty.
Suicide is Sadness making her vacation plans.”
“Anger is like
A full hot horse, who being allowed his way,
Self-mettle tires him.”
Source: King Henry VIII: Third Series
“Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.”
Source: Transformation and Healing
“Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.”
“Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.”
“Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath. Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: with mindfulness, you can see that they are unhappy and suffering. You can see their wrong perceptions. You'll feel motivated by a desire to say or do something to help the other person suffer less. This means compassionate energy has been born in your heart. And when compassion appears, anger is deleted.”
“Anger is like an intoxicant; it reduces man and degrades him to the level of an animal.”
“Anger is like fire. It burns all clean.”
Source: Conversations with Maya Angelou
“Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human.”
“Anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around and somebody lights a match, you've got an inferno. [But] if we can put our anger inside an engine, it can drive us forward.”
“Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt”
“Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long.”
“Anger is like sex urge, once gratified, the inner voice calls you a stinking fool.”
“Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.”
Source: Patti's Pearls: Lessons in Living Genuinely, Joyfully, Generously
“Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.”
“Anger is loaded with information and energy.”
“Anger is loud, rage is deafening, and wrath is thunderous; only love can silence them.”
“Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.”
Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.”
Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.”
“anger is more productive than fear.”
“Anger is my biggest enemy in life.”
“Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.”
“Anger is never a solution to anything, as it never does any good to anybody, especially to those who don’t know how to deal with it.”
“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Anger is not a real feeling. Every time in my life I've ever been angry, it's because I was scared, or because I was sad and I didn't know it. Anger doesn't just come out of a vacuum.”
“Anger is not a sustainable emotion in and of itself. It has to be transformed into a deep love for the possibility of who we can be.”
“Anger is not always bad, as long as it's directed at things that need changed and used in short doses so it doesn't consume your thoughts. - The Malwatch”
“Anger is not an accepted thing for women. And, you know, I do get angry. I feel its a very honest emotion.”
“ANGER IS NOT AN ADDRESS, IT IS SIMPLY A BAD DRESS. NOT TO BE WORN IN PUBLIC!
DO NOT WEAR YOUR ANGER ON YOUR SLEEVE.”
“Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.”
“Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.”
Source: A Swiftly Tilting Planet
“Anger is not strength.”
“Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration”
“Anger is often disappointed hope.”
Source: Songbird of the Sorrows