Apr 14, 2009

Anger Management

"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, that is not easy." -Aristotle

"Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved." -Marcus Antonius

"I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to." -Author Unknown

"Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them." -James Fallows

"Anger is one letter short of danger." -Author Unknown

"Anger is never without a reason, but seldon with a good one" -Benjamin Franklin

"In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves." -Abraham Heschel

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

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." -Benjamin Franklin

"The angry people are those people who are most afraid."

"So long as a man is angry he cannot be in the right." - Chinese proverb

"When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred." - Horacius

"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed." - Clarendon

"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding." - Ghandi

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