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I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
Actually doing a song, going to the studio, and just getting out on paper your anger makes you feel a little better sometimes.
Muslim anger has, of course, been stoked by America's war in Iraq and by Israel's brutal policies toward Palestine and Lebanon.
Often, overeating is a way to punish yourself for the anger and resentment you're feeling - either at yourself or someone else.
Anguish devours the mind, and furious rage, and hope than which the heart can bear no heavier burden, when it is long deferred.
Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.
I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
I resisted writing a book for a long time because I didn't want to invade anyone else's privacy or hurt anyone or anger anyone.
It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.
In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react.
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
Where anger can be seen as a relative positive in a man, it is hardly ever perceived as anything other than a negative in a woman.
Staring prejudice in the face imposes a cruel discipline: to structure your anger, to achieve a certain dignity, an angry dignity.
Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all on the line.
I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.
I don't know if you realize this, but anger is anger. It has no mind. It has no rationality. It's mad, and it just wants to destroy.
A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.
Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.
Forgiveness isn't just the absence of anger. I think it's also the presence of self-love, when you actually begin to value yourself.
One of the gifts our planet gave us is to love completely. Without jealousy or insecurity or fear. Without pettiness. Without anger.
I feel playful aggression is important for children because they have to deal with all kinds of anger and aggression in their lives.
When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.
In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range.
Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good.
I never know how I'll feel on any given day, but I've got to look around me and take what I got and find some inspiration, some anger.
there is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one's whole being in the determination: this must change.
You can only make the best thing you can make, and if it offends purists, or angers certain critics, you can only have done your best.
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want - but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course.
Never ask a woman why she's angry at you. She will either get angrier at you for not knowing, or she'll tell you. Both ways, you lose.
Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.
It's hard not to empathize with the mayor's anger, given the injustices he'd suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy.
The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion.
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don't want to sacrifice their children for the glory of a selfish king.
One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.
How do you redefine love when your idea of love is something that's so violent? When your idea of passion is anger, how do you fix that?
Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.