“We are all susceptible to those feelings which, if left
unchecked, can lead to anger. We experience displeasure or irritation or
antagonism, and if we so choose, we lose our temper and become angry with
others. Ironically, those others are often members of our own families—the
people we really love the most. Many years ago I read the following: ‘An
elderly man disclosed at the funeral of his brother, with whom he had shared,
from early manhood, a small, one-room cabin near Canisteo, New York, that following
a quarrel, they had divided the room in half with a chalk line, and neither had
crossed the line or spoken a word to the other since that day—years before.
Just think of the consequence of that anger.’ What a tragedy! May we make a
conscious decision to refrain from anger and to leave unsaid the harsh and
hurtful things we may be tempted to say.” – President Thomas S. Monson
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