Julia Cameron Quotes

Anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around and somebody lights a match, you've got an inferno. [But] if we can put our anger inside an engine, it can drive us forward.

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.

We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious to me that you've got to use it for something, but you have to separate it from your ego.

Don't lose your temper; use it.

The man who gets angry at the right things and with the right people, and in the right way and at the right time and for the right length of time, is commended.

How do I control my emotions? How do I stop getting angry so often, or how do I stop being sad? And I think there's a really important distinction to understand is that you can't completely control your emotions. What you control is your reaction to your own emotions. And a lot of people don't ever make that separation for what goes on with them.

Anger - use it, but don't lose it!

There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.

Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point.

Anger is only our friend when we know its caliber and how to aim it.

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.

Choosing not to act on an angry impulse and to feel the pain that lies beneath it is a very courageous thing to do.

Anger is one of the most common and destructive delusions, and it afflicts our mind almost every day. To solve the problem of anger, we first need to recognize the anger within our mind, acknowledge how it harms both ourself and others, and appreciate the benefits of being patient in the face of difficulties.

I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

I'm too mature to be angry.

Anger does not solve problems - anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, 'Don't make important decisions when you're angry.'

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

He need not get so angry because the House laughs at him: he ought to be pleased when they only laugh at him.

Only when emotion is involved do you get angry and lose your temper. You could have different points of view, but as long as it is constructive dissent, it is fun.

Every now and then I get angry, but fortunately, when I do, it's like watching a little dog try to attack something - it's something I'm not very good at.

Some people can vent their anger, take a breath, and let it go, but I wasn't one of them.

I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.