Pastoral Resources

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

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

Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

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

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.