 | "Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage."
- Babylonian Talmud
, tractate Gittin. |
| "Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were."
- Cherie Carter-Scott
, "If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules". |
| "When anger rises, think of the consequences."
- Confucius
. |
| "Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."
- Queen Elizabeth I
, in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625. |
| "Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat."
- Emily Dickinson
, Poems, Second Series, 1891. |
| "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
. |
| "If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods."
- Epictetus
. |
| "Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to."
- Harriet Lerner
, The Dance of Anger, 1985. |
| "Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry."
- Henry Ward Beecher
. |
| "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
, in Healthy Living Magazine. |