Anger Management

Anyone can become angry - that is so easy. But to become 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 so easy. Aristotle

The angry people are those people who are most afraid.
-Dr. Robert Anthony

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
-Tyron Edwards

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that lacks it has a maimed mind.
-Thomas Fuller

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
-Horace

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
-Walter S. Landor

No man can think clearly when his fist are clenched.
-George Jean Nathan

Think when you are enraged at anyone, what would probably become of your sentiments should he die during the dispute.
-William Shenstone

http://www.wisdomquotes.com/000790.html Aristotle:
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.

http://www.wisdomquotes.com/000527.html  Elizabeth Kenny:
My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint.

http://www.wisdomquotes.com/002259.html  Eric Hoffer:
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

http://www.wisdomquotes.com/001462.html     Frederick Buechner:
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back -- in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

http://www.wisdomquotes.com/000161.html  James Thurber:
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

http://www.wisdomquotes.com/000214.html  Thomas a Kempis:
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

http://www.wisdomquotes.com/001234.html  William Blake:
I was angry with my friend
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.

A Poison Tree
 
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