There was a boy who was always losing his temper. His father gave him a
bag full of nails and said to him, “My son, I want you to hammer a nail
into our garden fence every time you need to direct your anger against
something and you lose your temper.” So the son started to follow his
father’s advice. On the first day he hammered in 37 nails, but getting
the nails into the fence was not easy, so he started trying to control
himself when he got angry. As the days went by, he was hammering in
less nails, and within weeks he was able to control himself and was
able to refrain from getting angry and from hammering nails. He came to
his father and told him what he had ach
His father took him to the fence and said, “My son, you have done well,
but look at these holes in the fence. This fence will never be the same
again.” Then he adde “When you say things in a state of anger, they
leave marks like these holes on the hearts of others. You can