Wendell Berry

Emotional conversations

Illustration: Liz Fossilien ©

If you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you, you will continue to struggle. True power lies in sitting back and observing things with logic and restraint. If words control you, it means everyone else can control you. I think you should just breathe and let things pass.

“If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.”
— Wendell Berry