A Quotes
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“Anger is to make you effective. That’s its survival function. That’s why it’s given to you. If it makes you ineffective, drop it like a hot potato.”
Source: I Married a Communist
“Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.”
“Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.”
Source: Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy 2)
“Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save it . . . for my loved ones.”
“Anger is vital in trauma recovery. It starts by shielding us from those frightening, overwhelming, and devastating emotions that are waiting for us behind that door. We can hold onto that shield until we feel safe enough to open the door and cross the threshold; then, anger turns from a shield to a key.”
Source: You Don't Need to Forgive: Trauma Recovery on Your Own Terms
“Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.”
“Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.”
“Anger kills both laughter and joy;
What greater foe is there than anger?”
“Anger leads to hate so i choose to isolate. I don't believe in violence, i am suffering in silence.”
Source: Rebirth
“Anger left to run free is like wildfire, indiscriminate in its destruction. But if you learn to tame it, to position it, to take aim with it? Then it becomes a candle. And what is the candle but one of man’s greatest assets? It warms. It nourishes. It shines a light in the darkest of places, and it illuminates the path forward.”
Source: The Society For Soulless Girls
“Anger looks for a way out when it inhabits a room full of darkness.”
“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.”
“Anger makes good men stubborn and stubborn men petty.”
Source: The Devil and the Dark Water
“Anger makes people feel uncomfortable, because the minute somebody shows it, it puts you in a position where you can't laugh or make light of something... not to trivialise it I don't mean. But your reaction to anger is supposed to be fear or returned anger. So, you're really trying to control a situation when you show anger and it's a very weak position to take. It often works on people who aren't in a position to fight back.”
“Anger makes people speak the truth.”
“Anger makes people stupid.”
Source: Very Old Bones
“Anger makes us all stupid.”
“Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.”
Source: The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes
“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.”
“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were.”
Source: Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love
“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.”
Source: If Love Is A Game, These Are The Rules
“Anger management (which is a part of both public displays of rage and spouse abuse) is about changing a person's internal reactions to events (how they see their behavior) by changing the support environment for the behavior (making them see the behavior is wrong).”
“Anger manages everything badly.”
“Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Anger may be healthy, cleansing, a relief to the spirit at certain times, just as a violent thunderstorm clears the air and cools the overheated land.”
Source: Godhanger
“Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.”
“Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable.”
“Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools.”
“Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.”
Source: Uniform with the Enchiridion: Spare Minutes Or Resolved Meditations and Premeditated Resolutions
“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.”
“Anger motivates as well as any other emotion in the short term. It's in longer doses that it's more poisonous than the others and will slowly eat away at you from the inside out. - The Malwatch”
“Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.”
Source: Measure of My Days
“Anger never takes a man to a full mile but trips him on his face at a quarter mile.”
“Anger only freezes and weakens us”
“Anger only gets in the way.”
“Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can't have both.”
“Anger or hate can be a useful motivating force”
Source: Jenny Holzer: writing
“Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.”
Source: Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective
“Anger or rage (mênis, thumos, orgê) is an emotion, a mixture of belief and desire. It is not a somatic feeling, as nausea and giddiness are, though it is usually accompanied by such feelings – trembling and blushing, for example, and the sense of seeing red. It is, in Aristotle’s definition, ‘a desire, accompanied by pain, to take apparent revenge for apparent insult’.”
“Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.”
Source: The Second Sex
“Anger, pleasure, sorrow and joy – I hadn't learned the basics of them. without learning the basics, you can't do anything.
–ELG19”
“Anger points powerfully to the denial of rights, but the exercise of rights can't life and thrive on anger. It lives and thrives on the dogged pursuit of justice.”
Source: No Time to Spare: Thinking about what Matters
“Anger precedes hate, while love vicariously hangs in the balance.”
Source: Will Love Justify Everything?: Does Love Overcome the Injustices of Life?
“Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.”
Source: Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck
“Anger-pride-deceit-greed are in the form of ‘discharge’. But if a person does not have Self-realization, new ones will be charged within.”
Source: The Science Of Karma
“Anger-pride-deceit-greed are in the form of ‘discharge’. But if one does not have ‘knowledge of True Self’ (realization of the self), then he ‘charges’ new karmas within.”
“Anger punishes the bearer's heart. Who remains angry suffers most. For many, the search for perfection virtually guarantees it will be found, and disregarded in order to continue the search. Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.”
“Anger rarely begins with the moment in front of us. It is the echo of something older — a bruise we never tended, a disappointment we swallowed, a boundary we didn’t know how to name. It rises because something inside us feels unseen, unheard, or unprotected. And instead of reaching inward to understand the wound, we reach outward to strike at whatever is closest.”
Source: THE SELF WAS SIMPLY IN THE WAY
“Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.”
Source: The works