Creative Anger Quotes

“Besides, just being heard helps the other person calm down and feel less angry. We often yell when we are angry because we want to be Heard.”
― Rhoda Baruch, Creative Anger: Putting That Powerful Emotion to Good Use

“Transcending anger happens when we are able to commit to something greater than ourselves. And, ironically, sacrifice and concern for others are the best things we can do for ourselves. Solidifying our human ties sustains us in the time of greatest need and angst.”
― Rhoda Baruch, Creative Anger: Putting That Powerful Emotion to Good Use

“But there are indeed specific obstacles to change, which different people experience in different ways. In some sense, what we are calling obstacles to change are actually defenses against some perceived threat if we change, so we persist in thoughts that were originally protective.

Identifying the things that get in our way as we want to change becomes complex and difficult.”
― Rhoda Baruch, Creative Anger: Putting That Powerful Emotion to Good Use

“Concrete goals give purpose and meaning to our lives and obstruct our tendency to obsess about what it making us angry.”
― Rhoda Baruch, Creative Anger: Putting That Powerful Emotion to Good Use