Melody Beattie Quotes

Anger is a call for awareness.

Depression is rage spread thin.

You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you.

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

Anger simply shows that something in you is hurt, some wound is there.

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

Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.

Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.

Resentment creates stress.

Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart.

I'd rather deal with anger than apathy.

And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.

Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.

Unhappy people are dangerous.

When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.

Anger is the fruit of rotten roots.

Then when I saw Pain attack Hinata, I was so mad, so full of rage, I let the Nine-Tails take over without even thinking about it.

Through the senses, anger comes, and sorrow comes.

I have to force myself to get angry. But I want to show the world that there's another side to me, that I am capable of deep, deep anger and fury. They better watch out for how I'm treated.

A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.

I closed my eyes and rested my head against his chest, wishing sincerely that Rhiannon would get hit by a bus.

Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad.

I had heard that when people lost people, there was anger. But I definitely experienced it a lot more than I was prepared for it. Anger was not something I'd ever really felt in my life and I was not prepared for it.

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.