Patience lives in the gap between our experience of an event and our response to that experience.
Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.
We need never be bound by the limitations of our previous or current thinking, nor are we ever locked into being the person we used to be, or think we are.
No one looks or feels attractive when angry.
Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.
To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.