Anger Quotes - Page 31

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Whenever you are in anger, remember yourself. In that very remembering the focus changes, the gestalt changes. You become more and more centred. Anger remains there just on the periphery of your being, but you know now that it is separate from you. You are not angry, you are only a witness to it. Now it is up to you to choose to be angry or not to be angry. You are no more identified; hence the freedom to choose.

It's true, the Shaolin and the Wu-Tang, could be dangerous.

Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.

Anger is self-immolation.

With one glance he had got himself trapped in the brown fundament of her eyes, he was in danger of sinking, as if into a soft, brown swamp, and he had to close his own eyes for a second to get out of it.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.

A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them.

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

Jewelry, I'm telling you. It's a thing. And love. And maybe danger.

Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.

The people will always attempt to find the positive aspects of all circumstances, which, in themselves, are not susceptible to danger.

It's a little dangerous to be a badass.

Anger is a response that can lead to harm if we don't evaluate what we are upset about. Ask yourself what you are afraid of, as anger is almost always fear in disguise. If we think something or someone threatens us, we feel fear-fear that we are inadequate, that our lives are out of control, that things won't go our way. Then we fight. Find out what you're upset about. We rarely are upset for the reason we think.

Love yourself, so that love will not be a stranger when it comes

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.

When I see the migrant workers broken bodies and eyes without hope, I want to embrace and wipe away their fears. It makes me angry and helps me to keep fighting the oppressive system.

Great things are won by great dangers.