If you don't want to be an angry person, don't feed that habit. Don't give it anything that will make it stronger. Start by keeping quiet and counting the days you haven't been angry. I used to get angry every day. Then every other day. Then every third day, then every fourth. If you go thirty days without anger, make a sacrifice to God. The habit gets weaker at first, then gets destroyed completely. "I haven't been angry today, or yesterday, or any day for two or three months.
If then you wish not to be of an angry temper, do not feed the habit: throw nothing on it which will increase it: at first keep quiet, and count the days on which you have not been angry. I used to be in passion every day; now every second day; then every third, then every fourth. But if you have intermitted thirty days, make a sacrifice to God. For the habit at first begins to be weakened, and then is completely destroyed. "I have not been vexed to-day, nor the day after, nor yet on any succeeding day during two or three months;