Anger, something we all feel at one point or another in life and perhaps, just part of human nature? But did you know that anger is one of the most toxic emotions/feelings we can have? Anger is quite frankly, completely destructive.
There are degrees of anger and also types of anger. Its common to feel angry now and then, even over small things. But when we let anger get the better of us and it becomes ingrained in us, it festers and becomes toxic, doing more harm to us than to the person we’re angry with.
Some people let anger become a second nature — they don’t deal with it and before long, they’re angry about everything. Some people though, particularly those with a higher emotional intelligence, don’t let anger control them. For example, those who can handle a little anger now and then, might be angry at injustice in the world and rather and simmering in the anger juices, they do something — they find a good, productive and effective way to help solve that injustice.
This quote collection on anger provides an excellent reminder of why anger, if left unchecked, will quite literally consume you.
“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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.” – Mark Twain
“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems, not people—to focus your energies on answers, not excuses.” – William Arthur Ward
“The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.” – Barbara De Angelis
“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So, let us be loving, hopeful, and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.” – Jack Layton
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.” – James Thurber
“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.” – Catherine Ponder
“Do not let your anger lead to hatred, as you will hurt yourself more than you would the other.” ― Stephen Richards
“Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.” – Joan Lunden
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.” – Mason Cooley
“It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.” – Maya Angelou
“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.” –
Robert Muller
“Forgiveness is a sign that the person who has wronged you means more to you than the wrong they have dealt.” – Ben Greenhalgh
“As long as you don’t forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.” – Isabelle Holland
“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.” – Bryant H. McGill
“We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it’s absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.” –T. D. Jakes
“Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.” –
Paul Tillich
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.” – Tony Robbins
“Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.” – Mason Cooley
“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.” – Aristotle
Please don’t let anger get the better of you. Our world would be a much more beautiful and harmonious place if each of us just learned to control and re-channel our anger.
