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There is another serious thing to which many young men become addicted. This is anger. With the least provocation they explode into tantrums of uncontrolled rage. It is pitiful to see someone so weak. But even worse, they are prone to lose all sense of reason and do things which bring later regret.

Anger causes anguish to the souls of all of those who experience the feeling as well as to those who are the recipients of this emotional explosion.

Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their depth and pain, by harsh and mean words spoken in anger? How pitiful a sight is a man who is strong in many ways but who loses all control of himself when some little thing, usually of no significant consequence, disturbs his equanimity.

Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions. Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger.

Most of the things that make you angry are of very small consequence. And what a terrible price you are paying for your anger.

Ever notice how seldom we lose control when frustrated by our boss, but how often we do when annoyed by friends or family?

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions.

None of us can afford to pay the price of resenting...because of what it does to us.

We are reminded that anger doesn't solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything.

Anger is an uncivil attempt to make another feel guilty or a cruel way of trying to correct them.

The moment a man or a woman becomes angry they show a great weakness.

In his sophomore year Wilbanks tried out for the high school basketball team and made it. On the first day of practice his coach had him play one-on-one while the team observed. When he missed an easy shot, he became angry and stomped and whined. The coach walked over to him and said, "You pull a stunt like that again and you'll never play for my team." For the next three years he never lost control again. Years later, as he reflected back on this incident, he realized that the coach had taught him a life-changing principle that day: anger can be controlled.

The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

Whom anger chains, can ever pass thro' Maya's gates.

Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.

With everything we do in life we identify ourselves. Here is a man who says harsh words to me. I feel anger coming on me. In a few seconds anger and I are one, and then comes misery. Attach yourselves to the Lord and to nothing else, because everything else is unreal. Attachment to the unreal will bring misery. There is only one Existence that is real, only one Life in which there is neither object nor [subject].

There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.

Through the senses, anger comes, and sorrow comes.