This is a story that was told by Hazrat Inayat Khan and Ramdas.
One day the Lord Buddha was sitting in his usual quiet manner, talking and answering questions addressed to him by the people gathered around him, when he was interrupted by the shouting of an irate man. When the man stopped making all the noise the Lord Buddha said to him “May I ask you a question?” and the man said, “Yes”. The Lord Buddha continued, “Suppose there was a man who wanted to present something to somebody, let’s say it was something very beautiful. He goes and tells the man he wants to give him this beautiful thing but the man refuses to accept the present. Well then, who do you think the present belongs to?” The angry man thought for a few minutes then said, “Well, it should belong to the man that gives it.”
The Lord Buddha said, “Yes, that is right. You have been trying to give me anger but I’m not going to accept it so you can take it back for yourself.”

This story shows that when you are angry it only hurts yourself.

Once upon a time there was a man who had his arms around a very thorny tree, because there was some fruit at the top and he wanted to get up to it. He embraced the tree so hard that the thorns made him feel much pain. They were pricking him and he was crying out very loudly. Whilst he was crying he was tightening his hands on the tree. Seeing a man pass by he shouted out for help. The passer-by said, “Give up your grip on the tree and free yourself from all the thorns” but the man would not because all he could see was the fruit. He continued to cry out and ask people to help him become free.

This shows we are caught in our stupid acts.