Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then you will be read to fight the enemy you can see.
Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in.
Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, What else could this mean?
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.
When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.
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 and is not easy.
The best fighter is never angry.
Angry people are not always wise.
Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.