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"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."
Daphne Kaplan's The Courage to Withstand (Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1996), p.iii