I compiled a list of 8 helpful quotes to help manage our anger and to remind us to let it go talk it out and find our happy place!
8 Quotes to Help Manage Our Anger
“Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.” -Joel Osten
“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
“It doesn’t pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke. Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he’ll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn’t say.” – Jules Renard
“When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.” – Margaret J. Wheatley
“Anger is energy, and energy must be transferred into activity. Pent-up anger will either explode or eat away at our hearts and souls until it takes up all of our interior space. Unless and until we deal with our anger, there is no room in us for anything else.” -G Porter Taylor
”Anger is most constructive when it is used to solve a problem, rather than merely to prove a point or vent your feelings.” – Beverly Engel
“Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it’s only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It’s like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces it with emotional poison.” – Frank Lawlis
“Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It’s like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You have to make a choice.” – Jim
For more information about managing and talking about our emotions check out these links below:
The Roller Coaster of Emotions That Is Motherhood
6 Ways To Help Your Child Identify and Express Their Emotions
