#ge

When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#anger

Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#woman #anger

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#expectations #poison #anger

Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry—at someone else or at herself—which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#cry #anger

I'm still going to love you, always. And in the rock-paper-scissors of life, love is rock. fear, anger, everthing else...no contest. ↗

— Sara Zarr

#anger

If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other. ↗

— Walter Anderson

#hugs #anger

Remember Grace, if you let anger into your heart, it will push out your ability to love. ↗

— Bree Despain

#anger

He gave everything to everybody. Except to me. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#anger #bitter #sadness #the-ones-we-leave-behind #anger

Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses. ↗

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#now #peace #present #zen #anger

Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need. ↗

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

#anger