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The positive value of anger is not limited to peace activists, but is relevant
to all who work for social change. It may be argued that anger is the personal
fuel in the social motor that resolves the institutional contradictions that arise
in the course of history. As such. it applies to the activists who rid the world
of slavery, and who moved the political economic systems from feudalism to capitalism
and from capitalism to socialism, and who are fighting today to rid the world
of racism and sexism.
-- David Adams | |
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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
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Our
anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which
anger or annoy us.
--Marcus Aurelius
Be
angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. -- Henry
Ward Beecher |
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Life
appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
-- Charlotte Bronte
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"Forgiving
is one of the most difficult things for a human being to do, but I think it means
looking at some slight you feel, putting yourself in the position of the other
person, and wiping away any sort of resentment and antagonism you feel toward
them. Then let that other person know that everything is perfectly friendly and
normal between you." ~ Jimmy
Carter |
Anger
makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
-- Cherie Carter-Scott
The
price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
-- Elderidge Cleaver
"I think forgiveness
is an aspect of our humanity. I think a lot of as are brought up to believe that
if we don't somehow forgive, whatever it is that's ailing, troubling, angering,
enraging or shaming us, or getting us in any way worked up, is going to live longer
without forgiveness, whether it's ourselves or others we're forgiving."
--
Robert Coles
When
anger rises, think of the consequences.
-- Confucius
We plant seeds that
will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice,
envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all. -- Dorothy
Day | |
Anger makes
dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
- - Elizabeth I
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For every minute you remain
angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. --
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Forgiving
is an act of mercy toward an offender. We are no longer controlled by angry feelings
toward this person."
-- Robert D. Enright
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
"When I
see the migrant workers' broken bodies and eyes without hope,
I want to embrace and wipe away their fears. It makes me angry
and helps me to keep fighting the oppressive system."
-- Irene Fernandez
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"Forgiveness works
directly on the emotion of anger (and related constructs such as resentment,
hostility, or hatred) by diminishing its intensity or level within
the mind and heart."
-- Richard Fitzgibbons
"To forgive is
to set yourself free, to acknowledge that it does no good to hate.
Hate really, really destroys both the other person and yourself. That
realization is what I think taught me about forgiveness, and so I
try to live by it."
--Ruby Bridges Hall
Though we
all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must
learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive
qualities – those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
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"Forgiveness is
an act of the imagination. It dares you to imagine a better future,
one that is based on the blessed possibility that your hurt will not
be the final word on the matter. It challenges you to give up your
destructive thoughts about the situation and to believe in the possibility
of a better future. It builds confidence that you can survive the
pain and grow from it. "
-- Larry James
In spite
of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems,
men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered
with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this
self-defeating path."
--
Martin Luther King, Jr
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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
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"The
Lady who Knows About Mads says that word MAD can mean Make a
Difference! Healthy anger is setting firm, fair boundaries."
-- Lynne Namka (AngriesOut.com)
Life
is about choices. You have choices about what to do when you
get mad.
--
Lynne Namka (AngriesOut.com)
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"The
Lady who Knows About Mads says that word MAD can mean Make a
Difference! Healthy anger is setting firm, fair boundaries."
-- Lynne Namka (AngriesOut.com)
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One great thing
about being a Human Being is that you do get choices. We can use our
choices about our mads to become gentle, loving people.
-- Lynne Namka (AngriesOut.com)
Everyone
gets the angries. But sometimes they make us say and do things that
we don't really mean. We can learn how to release those mads in safe
ways, so that no one gets hurt and we feel better.
-- Lynne Namka (AngriesOut.com)
Speak when you
are angry - and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
-- Laurence J. Peter
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
Never get angry.
Never make a threat. Reason with people.
-- Mario Puzo
“When
will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent
human misery rather than avenge it?”
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
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"If I hold a grudge
because I'm angry, I feel strong. But to set that anger aside takes
real strength."
-- Everett L. Worthington, Jr.
The best remedy
for anger is delay.
-- Brigham Young