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Quotes About Emotions

Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
~ Alain de Botton
The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks.
~ Craig Johnson
Anger should never be an overnight guest.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.
~ Marie de France
Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.
~ Simon Sinek
Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
~ Edward Everett Hale
The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.
~ George R. R. Martin
I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.
~ Willa Gibbs
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.
~ Peter McWilliams
When the mind is free of fear, guilt, anger and is more centered, then it holds the power to heal any ailment.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.
~ David Hume
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.
~ Peter McWilliams
It is through our anger and hatred that we transform people into enemies.
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
You have a right to be angry, but you mustn't turn that anger back on yourself because that only compounds the damage which has already been done. You must turn the anger outwards.
~ Susan Howatch
If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.
~ M. Scott Peck
Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Your anger can be 49 percent and your comedy 51 percent, and you're okay. If the anger is 51 percent, the comedy is gone.
~ Joan Rivers
All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.
~ Mason Cooley
Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.
~ Mason Cooley