Quotes About Self-awareness

Those of us who are locked into ineffective expressions of anger suffer as deeply as those of us who dare not get angry at all.

Anger is a poison. It eats us inside. We think when we hate someone we hurt them, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others we also do to ourselves.

Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.

Will not be punished for your anger, your anger is the punishment.

An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

When you are angry, it means you, yourself are unhappy. Even if you are wronged, you are still making yourself unhappy if you feel anger.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely.

Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger.

Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable.

Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.

Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.

Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.

Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.

Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.

If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.