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"Anger's not a good emotion."
"Angry people are not always wise."
"George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money."
"If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return."
"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."
"Men in rage strike those that wish them best."
"Malice drinks one-half of its own poison."
"You have no more anger when you are all love, bliss, infinite existence. . . ."
"He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?"
"The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it."
"There are those who discover they can leave behind destructive reactions and become patient as the earth, unmoved by fires of anger or fear, unshaken as a pillar, unperturbed as a clear and quiet pool."
"There are some people who eat an orange but don't really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future."
"Whenever anger comes up, take out a mirror and look at yourself. When you are angry, you are not very beautiful."
"Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made."
"He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin."
"In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds."
"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."
"A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue."
"Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account."