Anger Quotes

It's a lot easier to say that you're mad than to admit that you're hurt.

When someone is screaming at you, they are only yelling at themselves.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

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

You can't move forward if your past is holding you back.

Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time—just like it does for you and me.

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare.

People who have been wronged badly and wounded deeply should give themselves time and space before they forgive...There is a right moment to forgive. We cannot predict it in advance; we can only get ourselves ready for it when it arrives...Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long...If we wait too long to forgive, our rage settles in and claims squatter's rights to our souls.

With...insight, we begin to see both ourselves and our enemies in humbler profiles. We are not really as innocent as we felt when we were first hurt. And we do not usually have a gigantic monster to forgive; we have a weak, needy, and somewhat stupid human being. When you see your enemy and yourself in the weakness and silliness of the humanity you share, you will make the miracle of forgiving a little easier.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every time it comes to mind. It travels with us, sleeps with us, hovers over us while we make love, and broods over us while we die. Our hate does not...die when those we hate die--for it is a parasite sucking OUR blood, not theirs. There is only one remedy for it. [forgiveness]

No, I'm not mad. I'm hurt, disappointed and... mad.

He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not

You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.

When anger spreads through the breast, guard they tongue from barking idly.

Anyone can get 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, that is not easy.

My greatest enemy is the evil inside me.