Anger is the ego’s way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.

Alan Cohen
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  1. If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind. - Shannon L. Alder

  2. A heart filled with anger has no room for love. - Joan Lunden

  3. Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you... - Jason Mraz

  4. I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do. - Brandon Sanderson

  5. 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.] - Gautama Buddha

More Quotes By Alan Cohen
  1. Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

  2. Be sure you don't lose your happiness teaching others people how to be happy. Your happiness is your teaching.

  3. Time reveals character.

  4. It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

  5. There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

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