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  • #1
    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions

  • #2
    Jane Austen
    “Angry people are not always wise.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #3
    Maya Angelou
    “Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #4
    Aristotle
    “Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
    Aristotle

  • #5
    Ambrose Bierce
    “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
    Ambrose Bierce

  • #6
    William Arthur Ward
    “It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.”
    William Arthur Ward

  • #7
    “ليس الشديد بالصرعة؛ إنما الشديد الذي يملك نفسه عند الغضب
    The strong person is not the good wrestler. Rather,the strong person is the one who controls himself when he is angry.
    (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 73, #135)”
    Anonymous

  • #8
    Mark Twain
    “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
    Mark Twain

  • #9
    Jason Mraz
    “Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you.”
    Jason Mraz

  • #10
    Mitch Albom
    “Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.”
    Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

  • #11
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    “Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

  • #12
    Leo F. Buscaglia
    “Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.”
    Leo Buscaglia

  • #13
    Marcus Aurelius
    “How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #14
    Bohdi Sanders
    “Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.”
    Bohdi Sanders, Warrior Wisdom: Ageless Wisdom for the Modern Warrior

  • #15
    Cherie Carter-Scott
    “Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.”
    Cherie Carter-Scott

  • #16
    Plato
    “There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”
    Plato

  • #17
    William Shakespeare
    “Men in rage strike those that wish them best.”
    William Shakespeare, Othello

  • #18
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.”
    Shannon Alder, 300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late

  • #19
    Audre Lorde
    “Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.”
    Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

  • #20
    “Get mad, then get over it. ”
    Colin Powell

  • #21
    Richelle Mead
    “anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate”
    Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice

  • #22
    “Sometimes I just want to paint the words "It's my fault" across my forehead to save people the time of being pissed off at me.”
    Christina Westover

  • #23
    Bree Despain
    “Jude was good. But he let his fear and jealousy get to him." Daniel shrugged. "'Fear leads to
    anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to the dark side.”
    Bree Despain, The Dark Divine

  • #24
    Shannon L. Alder
    “If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #25
    Thomas S. Monson
    “Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.”
    Thomas S. Monson

  • #26
    “Life's not that simple. Not so easy to move on when the anger you've got is what keeps you going.”
    Rachel Ward, Numbers

  • #27
    Bree Despain
    “Remember Grace, if you let anger into your heart, it will push out your ability to love.”
    Bree Despain, The Dark Divine
    tags: anger

  • #28
    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “Kindness is strength. Good-nature is often mistaken for virtue, and good health sometimes passes for genius. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm. Intelligence is not the foundation of arrogance. Insolence is not logic. Epithets are the arguments of malice.”
    Robert Green Ingersoll , The Christian Religion: An Enquiry

  • #29
    Keisha Keenleyside
    “May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch”
    Keisha Keenleyside

  • #30
    André Maurois
    “Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.”
    Andre Maurois



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