Quotes About Anger

I was able to forgive Emmitt, that the fuel firing me was no longer anger but love and compassion. That's when my life really turned around. Once that happened, I met true success.

Emmitt's cruel actions, his impatience, disrespect, uncontrollable anger, and violence, taught me all the ways I didn't want to be like him. My father stomped through our house, shooting his ugly, bone-chilling stare in my direction and sneering, "There's that little son of a bitch. Look at that jackass.

Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, "feminine" ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks.

Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

A thought came to her that had insisted on settling with her for some time now, a thought that would anger Michel if she ever told him. Given a choice, she would rather be the one who was persecuted than the one who did the persecuting-- both had a terrible price to pay, but she would rather endure humiliation and fear than grow numb to what it was to be human.

Most books are written from the outside in, but "Where the Wild Things Are" comes from the inside out. I think Maurice's book is the first picture book to recognize the fact that children have powerful emotions: anger and love and hate. And only after all that passion, the wanting to be 'where someone loved him best of all.

Temper is itself an obstacle.

It is well that Indians are unable to look at their country directly, for the distress they would see would drive them mad. And it is well that they have no sense of history, for how then would they be able to continue to squat amid their ruins, and which Indian would be able to read the history of his country for the last thousand years without anger and pain? It is better to retreat into fantasy and fatalism, to trust to the stars in which the fortunes of all are written

Tulta munille!

You are angry Jason. You, are angry. I get that. I get it. I mean without family who the fuck are we?

It forced me to realise that I'd been blaming you for not being flawless. And none of us is flawless.' Another sigh. 'I was so angry with myself for what happened to Michael and Lucy that I had to turn my anger somewhere else and you were the easiest target.

He was lying with his eyes closed--it was easier to talk that way and he spoke with that searing, convulsive anger that surfaces when there's no one to direct it against.

It is not necessary to get into a fight with someone because you feel angry; aggressive behavior does not have to be a knee-jerk response to anger. By practicing mindfulness, people with BPD can learn to slow themselves down and have more control over how they will respond.

Every man, deep down, knows he'a a piece of shit.

that moment, Kit felt an odd sensation. Things were happening so fast! It was as if a match had been struck inside her and a little flame was lit, burning like anger, flickering like fear. "Charlie," she asked. "What's going to happen to us?" "I don't know," said

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

Anger is a wound gone mad.

Goddamn! Goddamn!" he said. "That's crazy. Who told you that? Who is 'they'? They a motherfuckin' lie whoever they is if they told you somethin' like that.

The one quality which counters against longevity is neuroticism. Neuroticism is usually defined as an extra susceptibility to anger, sadness, fear and guilt – all of which can lead to anxiety, hostility, self- consciousness and depression – and there seems no doubt that these are unhealthy personality traits.

Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

No one ever teaches us how to change from an angry to a non-angry person. No one ever tells us that anger causes 'you' suffering and is not helpful. That it stops 'your' peace of mind and everybody else's. It's never talked about in a practical way, only a moralistic way.

the new consumerism promoted all the deadly sins (lust, covetousness, gluttony, pride, envy) except perhaps anger and sloth.

One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace.