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.
– William Blake
1001: Anger Management – Controlling Anger
Anger is a type of emotional muscle that you can train.
– Love, Timeless (Chinese Drama)
Anger is such a negative and toxic feeling that if not controlled can hijack your life. However having said that anger is a natural enough response to insults, being deceived, pain, frustrations and being attacked.
However, if anger overrules everything that you do, that you think and feel for long periods of time, then your life is not only toxic but you can be toxic to other people as well.
Anger and hostility can be a symptom to some illness or it can lead to illness such as harmful inflammation in the body and heart disease, so a visit to the doctors should be of prominent importance.
JPJhermes
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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
– Cato
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Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.
— Pythagoras
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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
-Robert Green Ingersoll
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Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve of in another.
— Pasquier Quesnel
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“A man is about as big as the things that make him angry”
– Winston Churchill
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He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not.
— Seneca
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
– Buddha
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
– Bertrand Russell
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Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of an angry man.
—Plutarch.
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Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
—Shakespeare
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Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
— W.R. Alger
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
– Ambrose Bierce
There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen. ~Alexandre Dumas
There is another man within me that is angry with me.
– C. S. Lewis
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
– Benjamin Franklin
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When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
— Jefferson
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When a man is wrong and won’t admit it, he always gets angry.
— Haliburton