Barbara Park Quotes

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

I'd rather deal with anger than apathy.

Letting an emotion move through you is healthy. Letting an emotion define you is not.

Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.

You never get an angry man suddenly breaking into a whistle.

Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.

Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal mechanism directing it, you don't have a rocket. You have a bomb

To reduce destructive emotions we need to strengthen constructive emotions. For example, to counter anger we cultivate love and compassion.

Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad.

The best advice my mom ever gave me was that you have to talk about your emotions. If something upsets me, she'd say, 'Get mad about it; it's healthy for you,' and I could feel like: Good; now it's over...next!

I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

I believe anger is a wasted emotion, and I don't like to waste emotions.

I find rage to be the scariest emotion as an actor, for me personally, to tap into. I don't like anger, and I don't like conflict particularly in my life. I like everybody to be nice and things to be easy.

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!

Diego Costa doesn't show any emotion. I am more emotional. So I have learned to control my emotions.

I feel like we sometimes let our emotions and anger get in the way.

Genuine expressions of emotion rarely persist longer than five seconds and almost never longer than 10. A fixed smile is likely to conceal anger, anxiety, or some other negative emotion.

I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of things. You're supposed to laugh, you're supposed to cry, you're not supposed to shove your feelings under the rug.

I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

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.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it.

That's my secret Cap: I'm always angry.

My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all.