I always had a decent sense of outrage.
—Bella Abzug
Nonviolence is not some exalted regimen that can be practiced only by a monk or a master; it also pertains to the way one interacts with a child, vacuums a carpet, or waits in line.… Whenever we separate ourselves from a given situation (for example, through inattentiveness, negative judgments, or impatience), we "kill" something valuable:… people, things, one's own composure, the moment itself.… These small-scale incidences of violence accumulate relentlessly, are multiplied on a social level, and become a source of the large-scale violence that can sweep down upon us so suddenly.… One need not wait until war is declared and bullets are flying to work for peace.… A more constant and equally urgent battle must be waged each day against the forces of one's own anger, carelessness, and self-absorption.
—Kenneth Kraft
You don't stop loving someone just because they've hurt you. Yes, what you did hurt me, but I gain nothing if I stay angry with you. But I might gain everything by forgiving you.
—Cassia Leo in Pieces of You
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
—Edward Abbey
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
—Milton Friedman
It is easy to fly into a passion—anybody can do that. But to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way—that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.
—Aristotle
Consider how much more often you suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
—Marcus Antonius
Is that what you wanted? That I be gone for good, rather than just mad for a little while?
—Sarah Dessen in Just Listen
I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once I understood it, it dissipated.
—Gayle Forman in Where She Went
A word to the wise is infuriating.
—Hunter S. Thompson
Don't be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upward.
—Vladimir Nabokov
Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.
—Tom Robbins
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
—Babylonian Talmud
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
—Cherie Carter-Scott
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
—Confucius