Anger is the ultimate destroyer of your own peace of mind. Anger never destroys the person who creates your anger.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, NBC’s Today Show interview by Ann Curry, 16th July 2011
Anger is the Ultimate Destroyer
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Great quote, and timely. But my feeling has always been that Fear — or the willingness to give in to fear — is the greatest destroyer. When you look at anger, most anger actually stems from some fear that the person has.
I just had an experience where a person got violently angry at me. But his anger was merely an expression of the fear that I didn’t like him. His suspicion was untrue, but just the fear of it was enough to incite him to violence.
Some day, I hope to be able to tell him that his anger doesn’t hurt me, but it kills him inside.