Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harms we do, we do to ourselves. -- Mitch Albom

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such a time takes flight and, in her absence, wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride. -- Pietro Aretino

Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy. -- Aristotle

Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way; this is not easy. -- Aristotle

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -- Marcus Aurelius

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. -- Henry Ward Beecher

If we are deprived of our just due, we naturally experience emotions of anger. -- Smiley Blanton

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

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. -- Cherie Carter-Scott

When anger rises, think of the consequences. -- Confucius

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. -- William Congreve

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. -- George Eliot (­Marion Evans Cross)

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat. -- Emily Dickinson

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

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

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last. -- Greg Evans

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves. -- Eric Hoffer

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. -- Elizabeth I

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. -- Bede Jarrett

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. -- Thomas a Kempis

My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint. -- Elizabeth Kenny

He who angers you conquers you. -- Elizabeth Kenny

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to. -- Harriet Lerner

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

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. -- Laurence J. Peter

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. -- Chinese Proverb

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people. -- Mario Puzo

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

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber

Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose. -- Virgil

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

What I’ve learned about being angry with people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them. -- Oprah Winfrey

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

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. -- William Butler Yeats

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