Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your
stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room
for your rage.
Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond
what you were.
Cherie Carter-Scott, "If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules"
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603), in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625
Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat.
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), Poems, Second Series, 1891
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give
it nothing which may tend to its increase.
Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to
be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth
day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to
the gods.
Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Greg Evans, Luann (comic), September 27, 2003
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.
Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense
muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth.
Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll
ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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 (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
Mario Puzo (1920 - 1999), 'The Godfather'
I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I
shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with
me because I get angry.
Maxine Waters, in Brian Lanker, I Dream a World, 1989 |