Gandhi's anger allowed him to work in the world

We can look for an example in the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. As a child, Gandhi lived trapped by a shyness so great he would run home from school, so as to avoid carrying on conversations with his classmates. As a husband, he sought to dominate his wife. Her refusal to submit to his will was his great teacher of non-violence to this future man of peace. As a father to his children, Gandhi left feelings of bitterness and resentment. In many ways, Gandhi lived in the midst of his own anger.

“I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world." -Gandhi