7 Quotes To Remind Us of the Upside of Anger

"A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity." 
- Mary Garden

"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
- Maya Angelou

"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves."
- Buddha

"It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss."
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward."
- Gloria Steinem

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

"It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen."
- Alanis Morissette