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Quotes About Control

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.
~ Pietro Aretino
Anger is a wasted emotion.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of me And it starts from the heart til it reaches my outer me
~ Criss Jami
Always shun whatever may make you angry.
~ Publilius Syrus
Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Anger is one of the most intimate of emotions and to expose it to strangers is one of the most stupid and sickening things to do. Never get angry with strangers because they are strangers.
~ James Clavell
Let anger's fire be slow to burn.
~ George Herbert
I do feel like at the end of anger I have to have something that grounds it.
~ Ted Leo
Anger simply means that your personal power - your personal space, your personal sense of being - has been violated
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her.
~ Ann Brashares
To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.
~ Billy Joel
We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious to me that you've got to use it for something, but you have to separate it from your ego.
~ Bruce Cockburn
Anger is energy, and you've got to find a place to put it that works for you.
~ Bruce Cockburn
Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.
~ Seneca the Younger
Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.
~ Tori Amos
Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.
~ Benjamin Franklin
we wish to make rage into a fire that cooks things rather than a fire of conflagration.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.
~ Dalai Lama
No passion disturbs the soundness of our judgement as anger does.
~ Michel de Montaigne
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
~ Plato
Anger is a brief madness.
~ Horace
Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy.
~ Aristotle
Anger as soon as fed is dead - Tis starving makes it fat.
~ Emily Dickinson