“Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?”
“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”
“Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.”
“Well, I can feel superior for my good deed.” I flashed him a smile. “How’s that for a selfish reason?”
“When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.”
“The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors.”