Anger Quotes

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Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.

- Marshall Rosenberg

"What will they think of me?" must be put aside for bliss.

- Joseph Campbell

In order to hold on to thoughts of anger, bitterness, revenge, guilt, and shame, we have to use a lot of energy.

- Edwene Gaines

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

- Buddha

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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we're holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we'd rather collapse and back away. They're like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we're stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we are.

- Pema Chodron

My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I'm going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity.

- Audre Lorde

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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

- Phyllis Diller

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If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world.

- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development.

- Alice Miller

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

- Samuel Richardson

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

- Barbara De Angelis

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that "summum bonum," the greatest good.

- Bishop Desmond Tutu

If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

- John Steinbeck

If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again."

- Sharon Salzberg

Anger is the enemy of nonviolence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Anger as soon as fed is dead --

'tis starving makes it fat.

- Emily Dickinson

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Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.

- William Arthur Ward

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

- D. H. Lawrence

One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.

- Alice Miller