“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.((in the book, he includes this quote from Marcus Aureliu's Meditatiosn”

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”

“How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.”

“I don't know if Marcus knows how important that moment was to me. How much he actually saved me from myself, from absolute despair. Maybe he does know and that's exactly what he was doing. He was like an angel who came into my life with his bus of books at exactly the right time, who whisked me away from a terrible place to a faraway land.”

“Kindness is a much more crushing force than anger.”

“So everything we believe about happiness is wrong," I said.He nodded.Everything?" I asked, when what I meant was, Everything? Including you? Including me?And Marcus, being Marcus, knew what I really wanted to know, and answered my silent, more significant question. He held up his hand to shield the rays and looked me in the eyes.Almost.”