Famous Quotes

"Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be."

Martha Beck on Anger

More quotes about Anger

• "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned."

  Buddha on Anger

• "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 and is not easy."

  Aristotle on Anger

• "Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

  Mark Twain on Anger

• "Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."

  Albert Einstein on Anger

• "Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

  Maya Angelou on Anger

More quotes by Martha Beck

• "We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster."

• "Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind."

• "No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone."

• "Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation."

• "Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you."