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Quotes About Anger

We are most likely to get angry and excited in our opposition to some idea when we ourselves are not quite certain of our own position, and are inwardly tempted to take the other side
~ Thomas Mann
The arguments of religious men are so often insincere, and their insincerity is proportionate to their anger. Why do we get angry about what we believe? Because we do not really believe it. Or else what we pretend to be defending as the "truth" is really our own self-esteem. A man of sincerity is less interested in defending the truth than in stating it clearly, for he thinks that if the truth be clearly seen it can very well take care of itself.
~ Thomas Merton
Why do we get angry about what we believe? Because we do not really believe it. Or else what we pretend to be defending as the "truth" is really our own self-esteem. A man of sincerity is less interested in defending the truth than in stating it clearly, for he thinks that if the truth be clearly seen it can very well take care of itself.
~ Thomas Merton
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
~ Thomas Paine
DON'T EVER ANTAGONIZE THE HORN.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Black votes matter to many politicians — more so than black lives. That is why such politicians must try to keep black voters fearful, angry and resentful. Racial harmony would be a political disaster for such politicians. Racial polarization makes both the black population and the white population worse off, but it makes politicians who depend on black votes better off.
~ Thomas Sowell
Ne için buradas?n?" "Sinirden." "Ah, mümkün deÄŸil, gerçekten inanamam buna." "Tam anlam?yla doÄŸru," dedim coÅŸkum sönerken. Çelik gibi sinirleri olduÄŸundan kuÅŸku duyulmamas?ndan daha tedirgin edici ÅŸey yoktur bir kad?n için.
~ Katherine Mansfield
This is the way out of helplessness and hopelessness. By following the thread of the anger back to its original source, and allowing the anger to express freely in a healthy manner, a seeker begins to understand why life appears to be the way it is (hint: we learn our worldview by mimicking someone else's, or we believe what they taught us about ourselves and the world without investigating for ourselves whether it's true or not).
~ Katherine Mayfield
When the source of the anger is understood and enough of the old feelings are released, the natural force behind the anger can be transmuted into intention. When the anger is fully expressed over time, the powerful energy that was used first to deny that it existed, then to facilitate its expression, still remains. This energy can be transformed into strength of purpose, power of intention to shape life the way we want it to be.
~ Katherine Mayfield
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. MAYA ANGELOU
~ Katherine Woodward Thomas
Anger begs us to make a powerful commitment to what we will or will not tolerate in our lives any longer, making it our best friend if we can turn it in the right direction.
~ Katherine Woodward Thomas
For trees, who see so much sorrow, so much anger, so much desperation, know love for the rare wonder of it, so they are champions of it and will do whatever they can to help it along its way.
~ Kathi Appelt
Hatred and anger are not the opposites of love, Tess. They are backsides of the same playing cards. It is easier to flip hostile feelings over and find the love and forgiveness that have been hidden there all along, aching to be found, than it is to produce new feelings.
~ Kathleen Baldwin
Make no mistake about it, I do not harbor ill will. My ship of ill will rides boldly across a sea of anger in glorious billowing full sail. "Forgiveness can bring peace.
~ Kathleen Baldwin
Do you think me a bloody eunuch, wench?" he questioned harshly. "Cover yourself before I spill your virgin blood!
~ Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
A woman's scorn has been the downfall of a goodly number of men and the cause of many a conflict.
~ Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
But my heart, thou hast betrayed me deep. You have closed all doors but one and that I slammed in anger.
~ Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Relationship/interpersonal problems • Losing your temper often or being easily frustrated
~ Kathleen G. Nadeau
Yes, it's hard to start seeing your mother as she is, hard to push aside all the resentment and anger that you may feel and see her as another woman. Hard, but worth every bit of the effort.
~ Kathleen Gilles Seidel
He knew why he was angry. Tory got angry when she cared; he got angry when he felt powerless. At Christmas, he had come to understand how people around here were basically powerless, how their cars and snowmobiles were substitutes for power. And that's why so many of them got angry easily, because they didn't have any control over what was happening to them.
~ Kathleen Gilles Seidel
she hated him, she did! Regan pounded her fists on the stone windowsill. He was a devious, cold-blooded manipulator. And he had likely been maneuvering her to his own purposes from the start. But why? Of
~ Kathleen Morgan
Anger, [Evagrius] wrote, is given to us by God to help us confront true evil. We err when we use it casually, against other people, to gratify our own desires for power or control.
~ Kathleen Norris
The tragedy of sin is that it diverts gifts. The person who has a genuine capacity for loving becomes promiscuous, maybe sexually, or maybe by becoming frivolous and fickle, afraid to make a commitment to anyone or anything. The person with a gift for passionate intensity squanders it in angry tirades and, given power, becomes a demagogue.
~ Kathleen Norris
With remarkable consistency the prophets, who depict God's anger in painfully vivid ways, allow us to see anger as a proper response to human injustice, the terrible wrongs we inflict on others, especially on those least able to defend themselves.
~ Kathleen Norris