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The three most harmful negative emotions are anger, guilt, and fear. And anger is number one. It is also the strongest and most dangerous of all passions.
- Joyce Meyer
Don't lose your temper; use it.
- Dolly Parton
Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.
- Nelson Mandela
No relationship can continue very long at its highest emotional pitch. But fidelity prepares us for the return of these moments
- Wendell Berry
But grief is not a force and has no power to hold. You only bear it. Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.
- Wendell Berry
That grief should come and bring joy with it was not something I felt able, or even called upon, to sort out or understand. I accepted the grief. I accepted the joy. I accepted that they came to me out of the same world.
- Wendell Berry
But grief and griever alike endure.
- Wendell Berry
If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
- William Faulkner
Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
- William Faulkner
Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words
- William Faulkner
A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. but it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and don't try to hold him, that he cant escape from
- William Faulkner
I heard that my mother is dead. I wish I had time to let her die. I wish I had time to wish I had. It is because in the wild and outraged earth too soon too soon too soon. It's not that I wouldn't and will not it's that it is too soon too soon too soon.
- William Faulkner