Anger Quotes - Page 16

• Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made.

  Nhat Hanh

  Hatred, Hell, Made

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.48, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• When you are caught in the heavy rains of anger, open the umbrella of mind, take refuge under the roof of reason!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Rain, Mind, Reason

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• Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

  Martha Beck

  May, Matter, Wells

  "Love More, Care Less: ‘Detached Attachment’ and Other Boundary-Setting Ideas" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. Ocotber 5, 2012.

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• Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.

  Virgil

  Purpose, Rage, Fury

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• A turn or two I'll walk
  To still my beating mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Exercise, Two

  William Shakespeare (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard”

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• At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  People, Actresses, Resentment

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• You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

  Art Buchwald

  Love, Life, Relationship

  The New York Times Book Review Interview in 1985. Quoted in "Pundits, Poets, and Wits: An Omnibus of American Newspaper Columns‎" by Karl Ernest Meyer, p. 308, 1990.

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  Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.455, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Power, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.134, Harvard University Press

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• In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

  Anatole France

  Peace, Sleep, Equality

  "The Red Lily". Book by Anatole France, 1894.

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• If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Flower, Heart

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Disappointment, Lying, Past

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• Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Strong, Freedom

  Speech to 140th Indiana regiment, 17 Mar. 1865

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• You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

  Joseph Stalin

  Gloves, Revolution, Silk

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• Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

  Thomas Szasz

  Meaningful, Responsibility, Men

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1990). “The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary”, Open Court Publishing Company

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• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

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• From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Sister In Law, People

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• 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.

  Mitch Albom

  Inspirational, Hurt, Hate

  "Fictional character: Ruby". "The Five People You Meet in Heaven", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• That's why I want you there, he said. You're unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisions to irritate people.

  Kim Harrison

  Differences, People, Decision

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• The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Boss, Trouble, Masters

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.56, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance; We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Brother, Men

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• Maybe I needed sensitivity training. I once signed up for an anger management class, but the instructor pissed me off.

  Darynda Jones

  Class, Training, Management

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.58, Macmillan

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• Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.

  Jim Henson

  Heart, Sadness, Joy

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• I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

  Bertrand Russell

  Baby, Bullying, School

  "Education and the Social Order". Book by Bertrand Russell, p. 31, 1932.

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• Just know that it’s fear that keeps most people working at a job. The fear of not paying their bills. The fear of being fired. The fear of not having enough money. the fear of starting over. That’s the price of studying to learn a profession or trade, and then working for money. Most people become a slave to money… and then get angry at their boss.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Starting Over, People

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.49, Robert Kiyosaki

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