Getting angry is actually punishing yourself with the mistake of others.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Source: Yoda in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)., written by George Lucas

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

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Don’t live your life with anger and hate in your heart. You’ll only be hurting yourself more than the people you hate.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Source: Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989) by Maya Angelou, ‎Jeffrey M. Elliot; Page 220.

Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

Source: Aristotle; Nicomachean Ethics; Book II, 1109.a27. original Quote in Greek: οὕτω δὲ καὶ τὸ μὲν ὀργισθῆναι παντὸς καὶ ῥᾴδιον, καὶ τὸ δοῦναι ἀργύριον καὶ δαπανῆσαι· τὸ δ᾽ ᾧ καὶ ὅσον καὶ ὅτε καὶ οὗ ἕνεκα καὶ ὥς, οὐκέτι παντὸς οὐδὲ ῥᾴδιον

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.