How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas. —Edward Abbey More about this quote Tags: wonder animals earth plants bird fog sea Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To halt the decline of an ecosystem, it is necessary to think like an ecosystem. —Douglas P. Wheeler More about this quote Tags: nature ecosystem preservation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds. —Benjamin Franklin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be angry at people means that one considers their acts to be important. It is imperative to cease to feel that way. The acts of men cannot be important enough to offset our only viable alternative: our unchangeable encounter with infinity. —Carlos Castaneda More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. —Pema Chödrön More about this quote Tags: others learning heart openness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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