Anger Quotes
Helpful Insights on Anger And
Anger Management

Here are some thought-provoking anger quotes on the basic definition and meaning of anger:

• Anger is an emotion, and all emotions are okay.
• Anger is a powerful feeling that is natural and exists only for the purpose of self-preservation.
• Anger is emotional energy that we can use to create and maintain healthy boundaries.
• Anger does not have to lead to aggression or attack.
• Anger does not have to hurt anyone.
• Anger is energy and strength you can use for powerful action.
• Check out these anger management tips for more information on the definition of anger.

These anger quotes focus on anger as a protective emotion:

• Anger is the emotion of protection and defense.
• Anger is one of the two feelings that come when your safety is threatened. Fear is the other feeling.
• Anger is designed to spur action to protect life, limb and loved ones.
• Designed for your protection and safety, anger is originally and ultimately your friend and ally. Until you accept anger as a valid part of who you are, you will be at war with your anger and yourself.
• The protection of your precious inner child is therefore always a matter of love more than fear-based anger.
• We have to have anger to survive in a world that is sometimes dangerous, abusive and cruel.

Now for some anger quotes that address anger suppression and the problems it can cause. Simply controlling anger is not enough, and if that is all you do, these are some of the problems you may run into:

• You can only suppress or apply pressure against your anger for so long before it erupts. Periodic eruptions can cause all kinds of problems.
• Your efforts to control your anger may be hurting you. If you don't blow like an overheated pressure cooker you may have an internal explosion. This usually means depression, self-hatred, major illness or all of the above.
• When you suppress anger, you also suppress your fear and your pain, which blocks the flow of emotional energy in your system. Suppression of anger, fear and pain also inhibits your ability to experience love.
• We often hurt others and ourselves when our buried anger erupts to the surface.
• Buried anger does not go away. We can medicate it, deny it and pretend it’s not there for days, weeks, months or even years. It's only a matter of time, however, before it shows up in some form of bitterness, depression, illness, outburst, violent attack or suicide. Buried anger always claims a victim, and the victim is often the person its buried in.

Healthy anger is closely related to the emotion of love, and these anger quotes shed some light on this idea:

• The more love you feel, the more open your heart is. The more open you are, the more vulnerable you become to those you love. This is where the protective emotion of anger comes in.
• Even though anger doesn't look very loving when it comes out, we often feel the most anger in situations where there is the most love.
• Anger moves into violence when it stimulates retaliation and revenge. This is why you must become emotionally healthy, so that you can be awake, aware and compassionate while feeling strong emotions. Only then can you keep yourself and your loved ones safe in emotionally intense situations.
• Expressing anger does not have to result in aggression of any kind. You can channel it into appropriate healthy action. This is the solution to passivity.
• Healthy anger does not look, sound or feel like anger as we have come to know it. The upside of anger is that it is simply powerful energy that you can learn to use in safe, positive ways.