Peace Pilgrim Quotes

Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.

In my experience, most players act the way they do in their own self-interest, in getting their emotions out and basically working with their own demons on court.

I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.

Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!

I wear my emotions on my sleeve. If I keep that bottled up, it's not going to be good. It's all going to come out at some point in time. I would rather it come out in little bits and pieces than me try to hold it in.

Now I've come to a place where I believe that anger doesn't really make me a better actor.

I was very sensitive, so when sensitivity has no place to go, it's often turned into anger or frustration.

I think anger of any kind is valuable. It's all about learning how to channel it. The worst thing we can do is get bored or complacent or worse - suppress our anger and then see it burst forth in unhealthy ways.

That aggression came over time from dealing with stuff - 'Anger Management' really is what it's called. That project came out and I felt a weight lifted off my chest. I learned something about myself.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.

I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.

One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.

I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world.

I was once a fairly angry person.

If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen.

A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

I hate putting negative energy out into the world. But it's either inside or out. I mean, it's either get an ulcer or have a fight.