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" If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? "

Sydney J. Harris

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" Anger can be a good thing. It's a mechanism that your brain uses to get you out of situations that are bad for you. But in terms of leading a peaceful life, it is not very productive. "

" Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. "

" Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger. "

" So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians. "

" The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones. "

Sydney J. Harris

" Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman. "

" Every progressive movement has been built on the anger, needs, and aspirations of the emerging major class. "

" I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked. "

" The further away we got from 9/11, the more I wanted to find some way to recover. I wanted to talk about the more anonymous corners of the city, because I think it's very important that not all of that anger was turned to revenge. "

" You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. "

" There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust. "

Saint Francis de Sales

" Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come. "

" People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation. "

" To the Left, Islam's anger and hatred of the West is understandable because they have legitimate grievances against us. "

" It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. "

Sydney J. Harris

" The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. "

Barbara De Angelis

" It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc. "

Laura Schlessinger

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" All I do is have fun. When I'm not working, it's about making people laugh. I love making jokes about things. Even when someone's mad at me, I'll deflect anger with humor. My days are filled with laughter. If I'm not laughing, I'm not happy. "

" How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. "

Marcus Aurelius

" A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real. "

" How do you redefine love when your idea of love is something that's so violent? When your idea of passion is anger, how do you fix that? "

" My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music. "

" He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him. "

" People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty. "

Elizabeth Wurtzel

" I think anger is a normal response to something horrible that someone has done, another human being has done, and to rob people of life, and that's actually healthy to have, to feel that. At some point you have to figure out, 'How do I let that go?' "

" My biggest influence is rap. It spoke to me, probably because of my upbringing in Christiania. You listen to 'The Chronic' and you can hear that anger and frustration. "

Lukas Forchhammer

" Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre, and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. "

" I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing. "

" Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love. "

" But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out. "

Eduard Shevardnadze