Anger Quotes - Page 24

• As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Girl, Mother, One Day

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• Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.

  Fran Drescher

  Life Is Precious, Rooms, Life Is

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• What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

  Horace

  Cutting, Punishment, Complaining

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• La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid

  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  War, Vengeance

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• The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Irritation, Wish

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• Dhyana is retaining one's tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse conditions present themselves one after another.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Frustrated, Mind, Dhyana

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• Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

  Sophocles

  Drug, Physicians, Disease

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• The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.

  John Donne

  Christian, Sun, Sun Set

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.218

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• You cannot acquire the gift of peace if by your anger you destroy the peace of the Lord.

  Pope Gregory I

  Christian, Lord, Acquire

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• Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

  Nancy Friday

  Friday, Cutting, Faces

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• Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Desire, Climate, Hardest Hit

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• A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

  David Simon

  Empathy, Littles, Good Things

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• Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.

  Harriet Lerner

  Life, Self, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Mar 17, 2016

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• Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is all gone, only Thou remainest." "I am Thou." Blame none; if evil comes, know the Lord is playing with you and be exceeding glad.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Giving Up, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, (2013). “Inspired Talks by Swami Vivekananda”, p.39, Read Books Ltd

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• It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.

  Confucius

  Kings, Army, Axes

  Confucius (1967). “Li Chi: Book of Rites: An Encyclopedia of Ancient Ceremonial Usages, Religious Creeds, and Social Institutions”

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• The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.

  Obie Trice

  Beautiful, Management, Anger Management

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  School, Differences, Tolerance

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• The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Monkeys, Quiet, Trouble

  Henry Walter Bates (1873). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.129

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• The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.

  Dominic Chianese

  Uncles, Father, Son

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• Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust.

  Rajneesh

  Giving, Meditation, Greed

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• Meditation is like the moon: it transforms the energy of lust into love, anger into compassion, greed into sharing, aggressiveness into receptivity, ego into humbleness.

  Rajneesh

  Moon, Compassion, Meditation

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• One cannot completely get rid of the six passions: lust, anger, greed, and the like. Therefore one should direct them to God. If you must have desire and greed, then you should desire love of God and be greedy to attain Him.

  Ramakrishna

  Passion, Desire Love, Greed

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• Today it may seem that your anger is very strong, how can meditation break it? But it breaks - it has always broken. Rock is very strong and meditation is very delicate, but this is the mystery of life - the continuity of the delicate can break the strongest and the hardest.

  Rajneesh

  Strong, Rocks, Broken

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• Understanding transforms, it does not sublimate. If you understand, anger disappears and the same energy becomes compassion. Not that you sublimate: anger simply disappears, and the energy that was involved, invested in anger, is released and becomes compassion. When you understand hate, hate disappears and the same energy becomes love. Love is not against hate -- it is absence of hate.

  Rajneesh

  Hate, Love Is, Compassion

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• What I am saying is that there is no need for anybody to suffer. Just be aware, let awareness be there. Anger will arise and will be consumed by awareness. One cannot be angry with awareness and one cannot be greedy with awareness and one cannot be jealous with awareness. Awareness is the golden key.

  Rajneesh

  Jealous, Keys, Suffering

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