Quotes on Anger

It is good to forget one's anger against one's wrongdoer, whoever he may be, for countless number of evils will quickly grow from this anger.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

How do you redefine love when your idea of love is something that's so violent? When your idea of passion is anger, how do you fix that?

Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.

Conversations with sisters can spark extremes of anger or extremes of love. Everything said between sisters carries meaning not only from what was just said but from all the conversations that came before - and 'before' can span a lifetime. The layers of meaning combine profound connection with equally profound competition.

Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.

I think anger does fuel a successful acting career. To play the great roles, you have to learn how to blaze.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

Is there any pleasure in anger? Yes, if the fire of my anger appeases the ashes of my friends.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.

The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.

I don't know if you realize this, but anger is anger. It has no mind. It has no rationality. It's mad, and it just wants to destroy.

These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

Men in rage strike those that wish them best.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.