Charles Spurgeon Quotes

We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.

I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.

I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.

I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It's certainly the most miserable state to be in but it's also tremendously gratifying, really - rage feels justified.

I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.

Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.

Anger is self-immolation.

Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.

No one can hurt me - that's my job.

If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.

Also, I feel that crying is almost--like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever-- totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1.Don't care too much. 2. Shut up. Everything unfortunate that has ever happened to me has stemmed from failure to follow one of the rules.

Anger is my biggest enemy in life.

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

Today I am determined to go through the day with ought hurting myself, or another, with my thoughts or my actions.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.

Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

Anger can be an expensive luxury.

I don't think I get that upset over things.

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.