Michel de Montaigne Quotes

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

If I could give one piece of advice, it would be 'If you're angry with a family member, talk to God about it, not the other members of your family.'

When anyone arouses my anger, I will immediately pray for them and regain my peace of soul.

It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true.

Too pissed off to cry, I said, 'This is only making me hate her. I don't want to hate her. And what's the point, if that's all it's making me do?' Still refusing to answer how and why questions. Still insisting on an aura of mystery. I leaned forward, head between by knees, and the Colonel placed a head on my upper back. 'The point is that there are always alsweres, Pudge.' And then he pushed air out between his pursed lips and I could hear the angry quiver in his voice as he repeated, 'There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.' ~Miles/Pudge and Chip/the Colonel, pg 168

My granny Torrelli says when you are angry with someone, so angry you are thinking hateful things, so angry maybe you want to punch them, then you should think of the good things about them, and the nice things they've said, and why you liked them in the first place.

It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.

Living without hate for people is almost impossible. There is nothing wrong with fantasizing about revenge. You can have that feeling. You just shouldn't act in it.

You don't have to explain something you never said.

Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.

[..] and there are tons of people I hate so much that I wouldn't mind taking them out. But killing them wouldn't get me anywhere - that's the conclusion I always come to. If I'm going to pay for it in the end, I might as well let them live.

Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!

To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

We think that we do well to be angry with the rebellious, and so we prove ourselves to be more like Jonah than Jesus.

Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

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

Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them.

I don't think of Bush as a particularly angry person - if anything, he has a facility for not harboring grudges, for letting things roll off of his back after momentarily bristling.

Blue thought about what Gansey had said, about being wealthy in love. And she thought about Adam, still collapsed on their sofa downstairs. If he had no one to wrap their arms around him when he was sad, could he be forgiven for letting his anger lead him?

Patience puts up with those you'd like to put down

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.