“What is it that is bothering me?” “Is that something I could fix?” and “Would I actually be willing to fix it?”

It’s, Any idiot can choose a frame of time within which nothing matters.

How do you need to be spoken to? What do you need to take from people? What are you putting up with, or pretending to like, from duty or obligation?

Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.

Red Queen tells Alice in Wonderland, “you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in the same place.”

What exactly was it that fell? Wrong question. What exactly remained standing? That was the issue at hand.

The third (as there are three) is the process that mediates between the two, which appears identical to what modern people call consciousness.

Before you can articulate your own standards of value, you must see yourself as a stranger—and then you must get to know yourself.

PURSUE WHAT IS MEANINGFUL (NOT WHAT IS EXPEDIENT)