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Quotes About Emotions

Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger.
~ Pema Chodron
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune
I'm so proud of myself. I worked with anger, with the darkest things in the world.
~ Courtney Love
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
~ Colley Cibber
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.
~ Nhat Hanh
There is no room on the golf course for anger or self-pity.
~ Greg Norman
He who doesn't know anger doesn't know anything. He doesn't know the immediate.
~ Henri Michaux
Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable.
~ Dalai Lama
He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.
~ Aristotle
Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness.
~ Barbara Park
Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.
~ Henry Cloud
He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.
~ Tryon Edwards
It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger.
~ Ephrem the Syrian
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
~ Walter Savage Landor
It's never what people do that makes us angry; it's what we tell ourselves about what they did.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Bite your lips, little brother...Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now...Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.
~ Elie Wiesel
It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.
~ Janet Morris
Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
~ A. H. Almaas
He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.
~ David O. McKay
So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.
~ Ellen Hopkins
Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
~ Dallas Willard
We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.
~ Sophie Hannah
The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.
~ Benjamin Franklin