There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers . . . even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it. —Abraham Maslow More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others. —Harriet Lerner More about this quote Tags: anger challenge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. —Bede Jarrett More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The admonitions to be happy, voiced in concert by the . . . sanatorium director and the . . . propaganda chiefs of the entertainment industry, have about them the fury of the father berating his children for not rushing joyously downstairs when he comes home irritable from his office. It is part of the mechanism of domination to forbid recognition of the suffering it produces, and there is a direct line of development between the gospel of happiness and the construction of camps of extermination so far off in Poland that each of our own countrymen can convince himself that he cannot hear the screams of pain. —Theodor W. Adorno More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion. —Garrison Keillor More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled. —Marshall B. Rosenberg More about this quote Tags: anger need fulfillment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whining is anger through a small opening. —Al Franken (as Stuart Smalley) More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am no longer afraid of anger. I find it to be a creative, transforming force; anger is a stage I must go though if I am ever to get to what lies beyond. —Mary Kaye Medinger More about this quote Tags: change transformation anger Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The anger she felt within her acted like yeast on bread dough. She felt its rapid rising, flowing into every last recess of her body; like yeast in a small bowl, it spilled over to the outside, escaping in the form of steam through her ears, nose, and all her pores. —Laura Esquivel More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. —Malachy McCourt More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Abraham Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, had some trouble with a major general who accused him, in abusive terms, of favoritism. Stanton complained to Lincoln, who suggested that he write the officer a sharp letter. Stanton did so, and showed the strongly worded missive to the president, who applauded its powerful language: "What are you going to do with it?" he asked. Surprised at the question, Stanton said, "Send it." Lincoln shook his head. "Put it in the stove. That's what I do when I have written a letter while I am angry. It's a good letter and you had a good time writing it and feel better. Now burn it and write another." —Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I was little I had a mood swing set. —Steven Wright More about this quote Tags: mood mood swings humnor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He was really very fond of his temper, and rather enjoyed referring to it with tolerant regret as being a bad one and beyond his control — with a manner which suggested that the attribute was the inevitable result of strength of character and masculine spirit. —Frances Hodgson Burnett More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean. —Penelope Gilliatt More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I was in the grip of that blinding, destructive, terrible thing — righteous indignation. —Anzia Yezierska More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email