When you start obsessing about someone you don't like, pick up a book or try to divert yourself with some other activity. A woman I know plays soothing music, and sometimes a taped recording of a babbling brook or a rain forest, when she starts to find herself consumed by anger; she finds that it is impossible for her to hate others while this music is playing.
— Joseph Telushkin in A Code of Jewish Ethics: Volume 1Diverting Yourself
