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ff128ce	Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.	anger grudge happiness happy inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking regret time worry	Roy T. Bennett
4b85f0f	Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human.	anger forgiveness hate human humanism humanity inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspiring water	C. JoyBell C.
0d1b350	Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.	anger anger-management ataraxy bushido inner-peace inspirational life life-experience life-lessons martial-arts motivational self-control serenity warrior-ethos warriors warriorship wisdom	Bohdi Sanders
2f9a65c	Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.	anger rage serenity	Mitch Albom
faef105	Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.	action anger change grudges inspirational life living-in-the-present motivational poison resentment seize-the-day soul success	Steve Maraboli
59337d6	Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth	anger generosity goodness inspirational kindness knowledge love truth wisdom	Siddh?rtha Gautama
e0a42c0	Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.	anger black-feminism feminism guilt oppression	Audre Lorde
30a99de	The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.	accomplishment achievement adversity anger climbing encouragement falling heart inspirational motivational perseverance persistence strength success try-again	Criss Jami
dccda48	A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.	adaptation anger attitude bullied bully bullying confidence confidence-and-attitude encouragement growth inspirational introvert loneliness motivational outcast pain youth	Criss Jami
eb88329	Anger is an essential part of being human. People are taught to deny themselves anger, and in this, they are actually opening themselves up to hate. The more you deny yourself the freedom to be angry, the more you will hate. Let yourself be angry, and hate will disintegrate, and when hate disintegrates, forgiveness prevails! The more you deny that you are angry, in attempts to be "holy" the more inhuman you will become, and the more inhuman you will become, the harder it will be to forgive.	anger forgiveness hate humanism humanity inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes	C. JoyBell C.
215dc3c	May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch	amusing anger funny happy humor humour inspirational malediction revenge strife	Keisha Keenleyside
d9c0c2a	Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.	anger compassion grudge inspirational life motivational people resentment	Steve Maraboli
0d1b203	He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.	anger bitter sadness the-ones-we-leave-behind	J.K. Rowling
9c6a83c	"If I say you're a goatherd's son, you say, 'Yes, Lord Ralon.'" Alanna gasped with fury. "I'd as soon kiss a pig! Is that what you've been doing-kissing pigs? Or being kissed?" --	anger humor insult pigs	Tamora Pierce
47e616d	Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.	anger communicate communication compromise divorce heartbreak loss love marriage marriage-advice newlyweds	Gillian Flynn
a77ab7e	...my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks, at a time, making the air humid, hard to breathe, my father stalking around with his lower jaw jutting out, giving him the look of a wounded, vengeful boxer, grinding his teeth so loud you could hear it across the room ... I'm sure he told himself: 'I never hit her'. I'm sure because of this technicality he never saw himself as an abuser. But he turned our family life into an endless road trip with bad directions and a rage-clenched driver, a vacation that never got a chance to be fun.	abusive abusive-parents anger broken-home childhood childhood-memories communication divorce emotional-abuse family father fight fighting fights fury heartbreak heartbroken love love-lost malice mental-abuse mother parenthood parents parents-and-children rage scared sexism silence terror	Gillian Flynn
a16e558	In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. All the praises and thanks be to Allah, the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinns and all that exists). The Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. The Only Owner of the Day of Recompense (i.e. the Day of Resurrection) You (Alone) we worship, and You (Alone) we ask for help. Guide us to the Straight Way... The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger, nor of those who went astray. (The Qur'an- Surah Al-Fatihah)	anger creator grace help mercy praise religion thanks worship	Anonymous
9f2fdfd	"He's got courage," Alex said. "Courage!" Raoul bellowed. "That coward almost him and--"	alex anger courage raoul-of-goldenlake	Tamora Pierce
73e9fdb	Loki's green eyes flashed with anger and with admiration, for he loved a good trick as much as he hated being fooled.	anger fool fooled loki trick	Neil Gaiman
b752ffd	His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the initial shock of anger and pain was over, a calculated thing that grew in a bloodless way.	anger gothic	Mervyn Peake
7601f90	Patience is an ever present alternative to the mind's endemic restlessness and impatience. Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will find lying beneath it, subtly or not so subtly, is anger. It's the strong energy of not wanting things to be the way they are and blaming someone (often yourself) or something for it. This doesn't mean you can't hurry when you have to. It is possible even to hurry patiently, mindfully, moving fast because you have chosen to.	anger patience	Jon Kabat-Zinn
58f2428	But can I say, now that she is dead, long dead that I only half believed in her. I wanted, I needed her to revolt. I know, revolutions take vast energy like volcanic eruptions. I know. And the sick must husband their resources even as they are resourceful for their husbands. But I couldn't help wanting for her, couldn't help the feeling that she'd given in, that she had measured out with coffee spoons what it was that she might ask of life and having found it lacking, tragically, gapingly lacking, had decided none-the-less to accept her modest share. I wanted her ignoble, irresponsible, unreasonable, petty, grasping, fucking greedy for the lot of it, jostling and spitting and clawing for every grain of life.	anger daughters mothers women-s-roles	Claire Messud - The Woman Upstairs
f70c3d3	Anger points powerfully to the denial of rights, but the exercise of rights can't life and thrive on anger. It lives and thrives on the dogged pursuit of justice.	advocacy anger human-rights justice	Ursula K. Le Guin
c7418ba	His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed.	an-occult-history-of-britain anger grief suppressed-anger suppression thomas-cromwell	Hilary Mantel
b8b2676	"Why did you revive me?" Alecto repeated. "Well... uh, well...." Mandy hesitated, her voice full of sudden misery. "They say there are five stages of grief, you know... five stages. denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Not in any particular order. Anyhow, I denied your death, I was angry about it, I bargained with Mearth to try and get her to un-bury your site and I was depressed about the whole ordeal. One thing I just froze up on though was acceptance. I just couldn't accept your death. It was really cruel the way you died, and I missed you so much... Mearth, my parents, the cops, Dr. Pottie, they all thought I was crazy. When people think you're crazy, that label automatically dehumanizes you, because people can use it to discredit everything you say with, "oh, pay no mind to her, she's just this crazy lunatic with a dead imaginary friend." I just wanted to do something, anything to make it all go away, and I decided that I wanted to revive you."	anger bargaining crazy death death-of-a-loved-one dehumanization denial depression discredit dying friend friendship grief help imaginary-friend loss lunatic mourning revival sadness	Rebecca McNutt
c272d30	The rage of the disesteemed is personally fruitless, but it is also so absolutely inevitable; this rage, so generally discounted, so little understood even among the people whose daily bread it is, is one of the things that makes history. Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence and is therefore not susceptible to any arguments whatever.	anger blacks prejudice race race-relations racism rage	James Baldwin
039bf8e	To smash something is the ghetto's chronic need. Most of the time it is the members of the ghetto who smash each other, and themselves. But as long as the ghetto walls are standing there will always come a moment when these outlets do not work.	anger blacks destruction ghettos poverty rebellion riots uprisings	James Baldwin
ba59e80	Trying to make sense of other people's responses to us is a basic human activity. Accepting a mother's [or anyone's] anger by concluding that i is justified is a way of making sense of a difficult relationship. But this acceptance comes at a great cost, for it means that we see their cruelty as our shame.	abusive-relationships anger anger-management emotional-abuse physical-abuse shame	Terri Apter
114ff5e	"Robert reflects: I go weak at the knees when she turns against me. I forget what it's like to feel courage. I try to remind myself that the worst of it will pass, that she won't be like that forever. She's mad now, but there will come a time when she's not mad. When I was growing up, I tried all sorts of things to get me through these times. I used to think "It won't be so bad if she doesn't hit me." And then I got to noticing that whether or not she hit me didn't matter. What I was afraid of was that she was going to explode and disappear."	anger anger-management physical-abuse	Terri Apter
27a5436	a single outburst does not produce a difficult relational environment. It is only when a parent [or anyone] repeatedly and regularly uses anger to close conversations, in the broadest sense of 'conversation,' that a dilemma is framed. When a parent [or partner] uses anger or the threat of anger to dominate the emotional atmosphere, then even potentially good conversations with them lose spontaneity, openness and honesty.	anger attack domination emotional-abuse parents relationships spouses	Terri Apter
f01bca3	"As Freud noted: "A thing which has not been understood inevitably reappears; like an unlaid ghost, it cannot rest until the mystery has been resolved and the spell broken." . . . in ambivalent attachment, a mother vacillates inexplicably from being loving and tender to angry and threatening.. Faced with this unpredictable inconsistency, a child tries to appease the mother, anxious to control and monitor her shifting moods."	abuse-recovery anger anger-management attachment mother	Terri Apter
b285ea6	You may find that yes, your partner tends to shout easily, but the shouting contains no malice and passes quickly. Perhaps your partner's short fuse does not prevent them from being loving and supportive. In that case, you may have found a gem whom others have avoided because they cannot get past the bursts of temper. But if you find that time after time, a partner or close friend disappoints you by being just like a difficult parent, then you would do well to consider whether you are selecting someone who helps you reproduce that difficult relationship.	anger parent relationships shouting	Terri Apter
9b7ed25	I could see in her a piece of the bright hope I once had in myself and it made me sour and angry. It made me feel sorry for her too. I wanted to take both her hands in mine, look her in the eye, and let her see that the world isn't interested in a little black girl's dreams.	aging anger dreams hope pity youth	Jeanette Winterson

Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.

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Roy T. Bennett

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Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human.

anger forgiveness hate human humanism humanity inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspiring water

C. JoyBell C.

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Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.

anger anger-management ataraxy bushido inner-peace inspirational life life-experience life-lessons martial-arts motivational self-control serenity warrior-ethos warriors warriorship wisdom

Bohdi Sanders

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Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

anger rage serenity

Mitch Albom

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Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.

action anger change grudges inspirational life living-in-the-present motivational poison resentment seize-the-day soul success

Steve Maraboli

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Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth

anger generosity goodness inspirational kindness knowledge love truth wisdom

Siddh?rtha Gautama

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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.

anger black-feminism feminism guilt oppression

Audre Lorde

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The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

accomplishment achievement adversity anger climbing encouragement falling heart inspirational motivational perseverance persistence strength success try-again

Criss Jami

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A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.

adaptation anger attitude bullied bully bullying confidence confidence-and-attitude encouragement growth inspirational introvert loneliness motivational outcast pain youth

Criss Jami

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Anger is an essential part of being human. People are taught to deny themselves anger, and in this, they are actually opening themselves up to hate. The more you deny yourself the freedom to be angry, the more you will hate. Let yourself be angry, and hate will disintegrate, and when hate disintegrates, forgiveness prevails! The more you deny that you are angry, in attempts to be "holy" the more inhuman you will become, and the more inhuman you will become, the harder it will be to forgive.

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C. JoyBell C.

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May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch

amusing anger funny happy humor humour inspirational malediction revenge strife

Keisha Keenleyside

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Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.

anger compassion grudge inspirational life motivational people resentment

Steve Maraboli

0d1b203

He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.

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J.K. Rowling

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"If I say you're a goatherd's son, you say, 'Yes, Lord Ralon.'" Alanna gasped with fury. "I'd as soon kiss a pig! Is that what you've been doing-kissing pigs? Or being kissed?" --

anger humor insult pigs

Tamora Pierce

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Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.

anger communicate communication compromise divorce heartbreak loss love marriage marriage-advice newlyweds

Gillian Flynn

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...my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks, at a time, making the air humid, hard to breathe, my father stalking around with his lower jaw jutting out, giving him the look of a wounded, vengeful boxer, grinding his teeth so loud you could hear it across the room ... I'm sure he told himself: 'I never hit her'. I'm sure because of this technicality he never saw himself as an abuser. But he turned our family life into an endless road trip with bad directions and a rage-clenched driver, a vacation that never got a chance to be fun.

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Gillian Flynn

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In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. All the praises and thanks be to Allah, the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinns and all that exists). The Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. The Only Owner of the Day of Recompense (i.e. the Day of Resurrection) You (Alone) we worship, and You (Alone) we ask for help. Guide us to the Straight Way... The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger, nor of those who went astray. (The Qur'an- Surah Al-Fatihah)

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Anonymous

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"He's got courage," Alex said. "Courage!" Raoul bellowed. "That coward almost him and--"

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Tamora Pierce

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Loki's green eyes flashed with anger and with admiration, for he loved a good trick as much as he hated being fooled.

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Neil Gaiman

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His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the initial shock of anger and pain was over, a calculated thing that grew in a bloodless way.

anger gothic

Mervyn Peake

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Patience is an ever present alternative to the mind's endemic restlessness and impatience. Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will find lying beneath it, subtly or not so subtly, is anger. It's the strong energy of not wanting things to be the way they are and blaming someone (often yourself) or something for it. This doesn't mean you can't hurry when you have to. It is possible even to hurry patiently, mindfully, moving fast because you have chosen to.

anger patience

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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But can I say, now that she is dead, long dead that I only half believed in her. I wanted, I needed her to revolt. I know, revolutions take vast energy like volcanic eruptions. I know. And the sick must husband their resources even as they are resourceful for their husbands. But I couldn't help wanting for her, couldn't help the feeling that she'd given in, that she had measured out with coffee spoons what it was that she might ask of life and having found it lacking, tragically, gapingly lacking, had decided none-the-less to accept her modest share. I wanted her ignoble, irresponsible, unreasonable, petty, grasping, fucking greedy for the lot of it, jostling and spitting and clawing for every grain of life.

anger daughters mothers women-s-roles

Claire Messud - The Woman Upstairs

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Anger points powerfully to the denial of rights, but the exercise of rights can't life and thrive on anger. It lives and thrives on the dogged pursuit of justice.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

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His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed.

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Hilary Mantel

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"Why did you revive me?" Alecto repeated. "Well... uh, well...." Mandy hesitated, her voice full of sudden misery. "They say there are five stages of grief, you know... five stages. denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Not in any particular order. Anyhow, I denied your death, I was angry about it, I bargained with Mearth to try and get her to un-bury your site and I was depressed about the whole ordeal. One thing I just froze up on though was acceptance. I just couldn't accept your death. It was really cruel the way you died, and I missed you so much... Mearth, my parents, the cops, Dr. Pottie, they all thought I was crazy. When people think you're crazy, that label automatically dehumanizes you, because people can use it to discredit everything you say with, "oh, pay no mind to her, she's just this crazy lunatic with a dead imaginary friend." I just wanted to do something, anything to make it all go away, and I decided that I wanted to revive you."

anger bargaining crazy death death-of-a-loved-one dehumanization denial depression discredit dying friend friendship grief help imaginary-friend loss lunatic mourning revival sadness

Rebecca McNutt

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The rage of the disesteemed is personally fruitless, but it is also so absolutely inevitable; this rage, so generally discounted, so little understood even among the people whose daily bread it is, is one of the things that makes history. Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence and is therefore not susceptible to any arguments whatever.

anger blacks prejudice race race-relations racism rage

James Baldwin

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To smash something is the ghetto's chronic need. Most of the time it is the members of the ghetto who smash each other, and themselves. But as long as the ghetto walls are standing there will always come a moment when these outlets do not work.

anger blacks destruction ghettos poverty rebellion riots uprisings

James Baldwin

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Trying to make sense of other people's responses to us is a basic human activity. Accepting a mother's [or anyone's] anger by concluding that i is justified is a way of making sense of a difficult relationship. But this acceptance comes at a great cost, for it means that we see their cruelty as our shame.

abusive-relationships anger anger-management emotional-abuse physical-abuse shame

Terri Apter

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"Robert reflects: I go weak at the knees when she turns against me. I forget what it's like to feel courage. I try to remind myself that the worst of it will pass, that she won't be like that forever. She's mad now, but there will come a time when she's not mad. When I was growing up, I tried all sorts of things to get me through these times. I used to think "It won't be so bad if she doesn't hit me." And then I got to noticing that whether or not she hit me didn't matter. What I was afraid of was that she was going to explode and disappear."

anger anger-management physical-abuse

Terri Apter

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a single outburst does not produce a difficult relational environment. It is only when a parent [or anyone] repeatedly and regularly uses anger to close conversations, in the broadest sense of 'conversation,' that a dilemma is framed. When a parent [or partner] uses anger or the threat of anger to dominate the emotional atmosphere, then even potentially good conversations with them lose spontaneity, openness and honesty.

anger attack domination emotional-abuse parents relationships spouses

Terri Apter

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"As Freud noted: "A thing which has not been understood inevitably reappears; like an unlaid ghost, it cannot rest until the mystery has been resolved and the spell broken." . . . in ambivalent attachment, a mother vacillates inexplicably from being loving and tender to angry and threatening.. Faced with this unpredictable inconsistency, a child tries to appease the mother, anxious to control and monitor her shifting moods."

abuse-recovery anger anger-management attachment mother

Terri Apter

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You may find that yes, your partner tends to shout easily, but the shouting contains no malice and passes quickly. Perhaps your partner's short fuse does not prevent them from being loving and supportive. In that case, you may have found a gem whom others have avoided because they cannot get past the bursts of temper. But if you find that time after time, a partner or close friend disappoints you by being just like a difficult parent, then you would do well to consider whether you are selecting someone who helps you reproduce that difficult relationship.

anger parent relationships shouting

Terri Apter

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I could see in her a piece of the bright hope I once had in myself and it made me sour and angry. It made me feel sorry for her too. I wanted to take both her hands in mine, look her in the eye, and let her see that the world isn't interested in a little black girl's dreams.

aging anger dreams hope pity youth

Jeanette Winterson