QUOTES
Anger

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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

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 (384-322 BC)

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

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
-- Charlotte Bronte

"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

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

 


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