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The positive value of anger is not limited to peace activists, but is relevant
to all who work for social change. It may be argued that anger is the personal
fuel in the social motor that resolves the institutional contradictions that arise
in the course of history. As such. it applies to the activists who rid the world
of slavery, and who moved the political economic systems from feudalism to capitalism
and from capitalism to socialism, and who are fighting today to rid the world
of racism and sexism.
-- David Adams |  |
 | Anybody
can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to
the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the
right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy.
-- Aristotle
(384-322 BC) |
Our
anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which
anger or annoy us.
--Marcus Aurelius
Be
angry, and yet do not sin;
do not let the sun go down on your anger.
-- Henry
Ward Beecher
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Life
appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
-- Charlotte Bronte
 |
"Forgiving
is one of the most difficult things for a human being to do, but I think it means
looking at some slight you feel, putting yourself in the position of the other
person, and wiping away any sort of resentment and antagonism you feel toward
them. Then let that other person know that everything is perfectly friendly and
normal between you."
~ Jimmy
Carter |
Anger
makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
-- Cherie Carter-Scott
The
price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
-- Elderidge Cleaver
"I think forgiveness
is an aspect of our humanity. I think a lot of as are brought up to believe that
if we don't somehow forgive, whatever it is that's ailing, troubling, angering,
enraging or shaming us, or getting us in any way worked up, is going to live longer
without forgiveness, whether it's ourselves or others we're forgiving."
--
Robert Coles
When
anger rises, think of the consequences.
-- Confucius
We plant seeds that
will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice,
envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.
-- Dorothy
Day |  |
Anger makes
dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
- - Elizabeth I
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For every minute you remain
angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
--
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Forgiving
is an act of mercy toward an offender. We are no longer controlled by angry feelings
toward this person."
-- Robert D. Enright
If
you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which
may tend to its increase.
-- Epictetus
ANGER
QUOTES
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Reconciliation
Day
- April 2
Forgiveness
Day
- First Sunday in August
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