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Anger

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. – Carl Sandburg

The greatest remedy for anger is delay. – Thomas Paine

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity. – Yoko Ono

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves – at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others – at what they did or did not do. – Peter McWilliams

I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive. – Yoko Ono

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. – Barbara de Angelis

Hatred is inveterate anger. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just. – David Herbert Lawrence

Hatred is settled anger. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible. – Donald Trump

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates. – Richard M. Nixon

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

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger. – Abraham Cahan

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive. – Rodney King

The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. – Karl A. Menninger

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. – Petrarch

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger. – Horace

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten. – John Dryden