I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.
We are reminded that anger doesn't solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything.
There is no fury like that against one who, we fear, may succeed in making us disloyal to beliefs we hold with passion, but have not really won.
I have seen some whose consciences, owing undoubtedly to former indulgence, had grown to be as irritable as spoilt children, and at length gave them no peace. They did not know when to swallow their cud, and their lives of course yielded no milk.
Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.
An expectation is a shelter - it gives you a security feeling. So when someone breaks your expectations he is breaking your shelter, making you insecure, fearful.
Anger makes us all stupid.
Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions.
Don't let the sun go down on me.
Forgiving is one of the most difficult things for a human being to do, but I think it means looking at some slight you feel, putting yourself in the position of the other person, and wiping away any sort of resentment and antagonism you feel toward them. Then let that other person know that everything is perfectly friendly and normal between you.
Hatred - The anger of the weak.
My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place.
That which is called God's wrath, and anger, is a means of discipline.
Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.
Holding on to anger only gives you tense muscles.
Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. . . . And Zeppelin. Totally.