Quotes About Understanding

It's never what people do that makes us angry; it's what we tell ourselves about what they did.

Anger is a wound gone mad.

Anger is loaded with information and energy.

I would just go in my room and just scream out of anger because I didn't understand how a person could be so vicious and mean.

Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.

Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.

Blaming and punishing others are superficial expressions of anger.

My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.

When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

With malice towards none; with charity for all.

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

Pain is pain, hurt is hurt, fear is fear, anger is anger, and it has no color.

We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?

Why should I be angry at someone when they are out dancing?

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

If you realize that those who do mean things are psychologically ill, your feelings of anger will turn to feelings of pity.

All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.

Anger is only our friend when we know its caliber and how to aim it.

Do you get the anger that is out here?

Adolescents need to be reassured that nothing-neither their growing maturity, their moods, their misbehavior, nor your anger at something they have done-can shake your basic commitment to them.

Anger is a call for awareness.

Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.

Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.