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" Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process. "

Yusef Komunyakaa

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" To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear. "

" I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues. "

" Imagine how much capital a country like Argentina might attract - if instead of defaulting seriatim and affecting a pose of anger toward creditors, it borrowed responsibly and honored its obligations. "

" Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else. "

" Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. "

Booth Tarkington

" 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

" It is good to forget one's anger against one's wrongdoer, whoever he may be, for countless number of evils will quickly grow from this anger. "

" Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control. "

Jack Henry Abbott

" It absolutely helped - to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts,' I had to see the whole story from his point of view. All of a sudden I understood more of what my own father must be going through - the fear, the frustration, the anger... the hope that he'll leave a legacy. "

" In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love. "

Karen Salmansohn

" Anger is one of those emotions that doesn't follow the letter of the law. It speaks before it thinks. It rears up on its hind legs and charges. "

" We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?' "

" I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended. "

Christopher Darden

" I think it's a pity for him that my father didn't have the pleasure of seeing me grow up. I think he missed out on something. But it doesn't matter. It's boring. I don't have any anger about it. "

" I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory. "

" Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" There's simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being put in the hands of the consumer. But the important thing that gets lost with some of these business owners who are very upset with us is it's the whole picture that counts. "

Jeremy Stoppelman

" I am a danger to myself if I get angry. "

" Expressing anger is a form of public littering. "

" Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible. "

" It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses. "

William Arthur Ward

" One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking. "

" One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. "

William Butler Yeats

" No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. "

George Jean Nathan

" I could feel my moral compass as a soldier, in danger of - I could feel the squeeze, the pressure of frustration and anger and fear combining on me... I felt the danger; I felt the squeeze of it. "

" It's still unacceptable for women to have negative emotions, especially anger, and I was trying to write against that. "

" For me, the interesting thing about anorexia is that you show your wound. There's no hiding it. So my anger and sense of disappointment, all the stuff I was out of touch with, became this visible rebuke to my parents. "

" I watch a lot of teen TV and read a lot of YA novels. I also talk to teens whenever I can. There are cultural differences between when I was a teen and now, but emotions - anger, angst, love - are the same. "

Sarah Mlynowski

" I have been to anger management twice. After the first session the lady was like, 'Baby, you don't seem that angry at all. You seem like a really nice guy.' "

" Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation. "