A Quotes
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“Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.”
“Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.”
Source: Triangles: A Novel
“Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him.”
Source: Bacon's Essays
“Anger, resentment and disappointment, in most cases, can not exist in our lives without our expressed permission. An honest and sincere introspection will reveal that all three emotions are centered and rooted in self. They are self preserving reactions sprung to life by our inconveniently unmet expectations. Joy and contentment replaces these emotions when we genuinely put others before ourselves. ~Jason Versey”
Source: A Walk with Prudence
“Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.”
Source: 300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late
“Anger, resentment, jealousy, desire for revenge, lust, greed, antagonisms, and rivalries are the obvious signs that I have left home. And that happens quite easily. When I pay careful attention to what goes on in my mind from moment to moment, I come to the disconcerting discovery that there are very few moments during the day when I am really free from these dark emotions, passions and feelings.
Constantly falling back into an old trap, before I am even fully aware of it, I find myself wondering why someone hurt me, rejected me, or didn't pay attention to me. Without realizing it, I find myself brooding about someone else's success, my own loneliness, and the way the world abuses me. Despite my conscious intentions, I often catch myself daydreaming about becoming rich, powerful, and very famous. All of these mental games reveal to me the fragility of my faith that I am the Beloved One on whom God's favor rests. I am so afraid of being disliked, blamed, put aside, passed over, ignored, persecuted, and killed, that I am constantly developing strategies to defend myself and thereby assure myself of the love I think I need and deserve. And in so doing I move far away from my father's home and choose to dwell in a "distant country.”
Source: The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
“Anger rips free from a tongue too often silenced.”
Source: The Woman in the White Kimono
“Anger rolled off Rey like the crashing waves that had battered the Santa Cruz coastline to the point that many houses were in danger of toppling into the ocean. Rey’s fury was in danger of toppling him over the edge.”
Source: Sundowners
“Anger’s grip on young men, and others alike, can be molded. It can be managed. And, it can aid all forms of civilization in the advancement thereof.”
Source: In a Young Man's Eyes: An 18-Year-Old's Analysis of Modern Boyhood
“Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of me
And it starts from the heart until it reaches my outer me”
Source: Healology
“Anger's like rocket fuel. Either it pushes you forward or it burns you alive. - Harriett Osborne”
Source: The Change
“Anger's not bad," he said. "It's human...”
Source: Just Listen
“Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.”
Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy
“Anger should be especially kept down in punishing, because he who comes to punishment in wrath will never hold that middle course which lies between the too much and the too little. It is also true that it would be desirable that they who hold the office of Judges should be like the laws, which approach punishment not in a spirit of anger but in one of equity.”
“Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.”
“Anger should never be an overnight guest.”
“Anger should never be permitted to rise in our bosoms, and words suggested by angry feelings should never be permitted to pass our lips. 'A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger'.”
Source: Journal of Discourses
“Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.”
“Anger simply means that your personal power - your personal space, your personal sense of being - has been violated”
“Anger simply shows that something in you is hurt, some wound is there.”
“Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.”
“Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity.”
Source: Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier
“Anger, surprisingly, often follows social hierarchies. Many people easily express anger toward those who are less powerful—a waiter, a child, a junior employee—but suppress it when mistreated by someone more powerful, such as a boss, police officer, or a government body.”
Source: Critical Thinking Unchained: From Formal Logic to Dialectics of Emancipation
“Anger tells us that our boundaries have been violated. ... However, as with all emotions, anger doesn't understand time. Anger doesn't dissipate automatically if the danger occurred two minutes ago—or twenty years ago! It has to be worked through appropriately. Otherwise, anger simply lives inside the heart. This is why individuals with injured boundaries often are shocked by the rage they feel inside when they begin setting limits. This is generally not 'new anger'—it's 'old anger.' It's often years of nos that were never voiced, never respected, and never listened to. The protests against all the evil and violation of our souls sit inside us, waiting to tell their truths.”
Source: Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
“Anger tells us we've disconnected from life. The purpose in anger is to use it to come back to life.”
“Anger, temper, rage and aggression stem from weakness and fragility. Compassion, patience, calmness and composure stem from strength and confidence.”
Source: Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life
“Anger that grows in the soil of deprivation is a holy fruit, while that which is sewn in the soil of overabundance grows crooked and full of poison.”
Source: Reconstruction
“Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.”
“Anger,
The spring of all life's horror.
- Medea”
Source: Medea and Other Plays
“Anger, then, is only for the engaged; for those with projects that matter.”
Source: The Beast in the Nursery: On Curiosity and Other Appetites
“Anger, this … flirtation, annoyance … He knew those were my crutches.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.”
“Anger usually only serves us, and even then, only very fleetingly.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.”
“Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“Anger was a god’s prerogative. Mortals had no such luxury; they just had to do whatever they were told to by the angry gods.”
Source: Nephilim's Hex
“Anger was a sign of weakness. So was fear. Kaifeng breathed deep to keep both at bay.”
Source: The Jade Temptress
“Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.”
“Anger was beautiful, because its core was the absence of all doubt. When anger wrapped you up in yourself and you knew that you were right and righteous—that the very universe was in agreement with you—at that moment you were a god, and anyone who crossed you or disagreed with you was worse than wrong, they were heretics, apostates, twisted in the very womb.”
Source: Lord of Souls
“Anger was better than feeling nothing; because anger and hatred were the long-lasting fuel in the endless dark of my despair. The same way that music had kept me from breaking.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.”
Source: A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four
“Anger was better than weeping.”
Source: To Marry a Prince
“Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.”
Source: The Ivory Dagger
“Anger was buried far too early in a young heart, which perhaps contained much good.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“Anger was how you protected yourself before you learned to set boundaries.”
“Anger was simple, self-sustaining as a cactus. You couldn't look too closely at it, lest the spines get you in the eye.”
Source: Unbecoming
“Anger was the indulgence of a child, not a queen.”
Source: The Invasion of the Tearling
“Anger was washed away in the river along with any obligation.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms
“Anger. We have to learn to control our emotions or they will control us.”
Source: Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence
“Anger will come and go and the watcher abides. Sadness comes and passes by and the witness remains”
Source: From I to Q