Anger And Hurt Quotes

Anger And Hurt Quotes by Carl Sandburg, Joan Lunden, Evan Esar, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Leo Buscaglia and many others.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects noth

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Carl Sandburg
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden
Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
Evan Esar
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Benjamin Franklin
Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
Leo Buscaglia
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin
It’s better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart.
Pope John Paul II
Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay… Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.
Chaz Bono
Anger as soon as fed is dead- ‘Tis starving makes it fat.
Emily Dickinson
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark Twain
Do not suppress it – that would hurt you inside. Do not express it – this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.
Peace Pilgrim
Your job in life is to look after yourself and to find ways to get what you need – emotionally and otherwise – so that you live your best possible life, without being mired in anger and hurt over the past.
Amy Dickinson
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Carrie Fisher
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
Cherie Carter-Scott