I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.
Copy Quote View & ShareForgiveness isn't just the absence of anger. I think it's also the presence of self-love, when you actually begin to value yourself.
Copy Quote View & ShareI had a job when I was 15 working at a supermarket, and I knocked over a stack of plastic coffee cups. In my anger, I threw one at a concrete wall, and it rebounded back into my head and cut my head open. Stupidest way to get a scar, but it's one that I have.
Copy Quote View & ShareTo find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied.
Copy Quote View & ShareFirst and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.
Copy Quote View & ShareBeing irrational and out of control is what happens in real life. Not cautiously choreographing your anger or your emotions, losing yourself in them is what happens in real life.
Copy Quote View & ShareTake the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.
Copy Quote View & ShareI'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.
Copy Quote View & ShareAnger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe further away we got from 9/11, the more I wanted to find some way to recover. I wanted to talk about the more anonymous corners of the city, because I think it's very important that not all of that anger was turned to revenge.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range.
Copy Quote View & ShareLove is not always bed of roses. When its unfulfilled, it causes immense pain and anger.
Copy Quote View & ShareAnger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?
Copy Quote View & ShareMaybe it's stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.
Copy Quote View & ShareI have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you've had children with someone you're divorced from, divorce defines everything; it's the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain.
Copy Quote View & ShareChristlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.
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