“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”– Maya Angelou Related Quotes “The American people are smart. They’ve gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.”– John Avlon “Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.”– Joan Lunden “The world in general doesn’t know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.”– W. Somerset Maugham