#ness

If you stay in the company of anger, pain, or hurt, happiness will find someone else to visit. Make the choice to view all of your past relationships as a gift. Throw out what hasn’t worked in the past and incorporate new concepts. Focus on being happy. ↗

— Kristen Crockett

#happiness #hurt #relationships #anger

Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#bitterness #forgetfulness #anger

Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on ↗

— Homer

#forgiveness #rage #anger

Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. ↗

— Hannah More

#anger

If you are upset with another’s words towards you; be cautious of your reactions, for you are only meant to be a sounding-board for his soul ↗

— Jeremy Aldana

#awareness #reactions #sounding-board #anger

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

— John Green

#sadness #anger

I am...sad and angry. Why is my spirit so sad and angry? I look back at my life and all I can remember is rage and rage and rage. ↗

— Chris Adrian

#rage #sadness #anger

I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it. ↗

— Daniel T. O'Hara

#badness #books #reading #anger

There is, after all, no moral difference between the bigot and the tolerator. They are from case to case positive or negative. One man is bigoted because he was given the sword of truth, another because he is angered in thoughtlessness; then, one man is tolerant because he was given the flag of peace, another because he is cowardly and wishes to hide all guilt. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bigotry #cowardice #differentiation #flag #guilt

Through the anger came something I recognized; the sadness that can result from too many years absorbing the poison of others. - Alex Delaware on Dr. Lehmann ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

#feelings #sadness #anger