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• Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Anniversary, Marriage

  Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints (1966)

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• Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

  Frederick Buechner

  Kings, Fun, Pain

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 19, 2014

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• Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

  Euripides

  Life, Kindness, Limits

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• There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

  Wayne Dyer

  Use

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• Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

  Carl Sandburg

  Hurt, Passion, Effects

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• Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.

  Jim Butcher

  What Matters, Choices, Use

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1693, Penguin

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• 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.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Inspiring, Letting Go

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.78, Harmony

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• Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

  Malcolm X

  Motivational, Change, Sad

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book edited by George Breitman, 1965.

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• Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

  George Lucas

  Depression, Fear, Hate

  Patricia C. Wrede, George Lucas (2012). “Star Wars®: Episode I: The Phantom Menace”, p.112, Scholastic Inc.

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• Temper is the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Inspirational, Losing, Temper

  "Fictional character: Buddy". "'Anger Management': THR's 2003 Review" by Kirk Honeycutt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2018.

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• He who angers you conquers you.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Inspirational, Life, Hero

  "Fictional character: Arturo". "Public Art", www.imdb.com. 2017.

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• Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Wise

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.66, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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  Get mad, then get over it.

  Colin Powell

  Life, Moving On, Wise

  Colin Powell (2012). “It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership”, p.9, Harper Collins

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  In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

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• When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Grieving, Orange Juice

  "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Single, Hurt

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• It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

  Robert W. Service

  Adversity, Climbing, Shoes

  "Sand: The Never-ending Story". Book by Michael Welland, p. 30, 2009.

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• Anger is a short madness.

  Horace

  Wisdom, Madness

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 2, l. 62

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• Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order.

  Maggie Scarf

  Sports, Order, Car

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• Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Revenge, Concealed, Exacting Revenge

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• The best remedy for anger is delay.

  Brigham Young

  Delay, Remedy, Angry

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  Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

  James Thurber

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  James Thurber (1983). “Credos and Curios”, HarperCollins

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• Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.

  Nhat Hanh

  Regret, Thinking, Self

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Transformation and Healing”, p.60, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Interesting, Understanding, Enemy

  "Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects".

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• The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Spiritual, Helping Others

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