Maya Angelou Quotes

Happiness cannot come from hatred or anger. Nobody can say, 'Today I am happy because this morning I was angry.' On the contrary, people feel uneasy and sad and say, 'Today I am not very happy, because I lost my temper this morning.'

Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness.

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

Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.

One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.

Nothing can steal happiness, peace, away from you: if anyone does make you angry, you are the loser; if someone can allow you to lose peace, you are the loser.

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

Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness.

Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.

The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.

I am not saying that I am different, but I don't have emotional pain. I may be angry and I may be peaceful, but no emotional pain.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

I'm not an angry woman. I'm not bitter.

I can get incredibly angry, to the point that I get ashamed of my actions.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

I have a bit of a temper.

A man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.

You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them, and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

I will always be mad at someone. That will never go away.

When you remain angry with another person, you give away your emotional control to that person each time you think of him or here. You allow him or her to control your emotions at long distance. By not forgiving, you allow that person to run your emotional life, exactly as if he or she were right there with you and the situation was occurring all over again.

We do not need to become unhappy just because things don't go our way.