life

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Easy choices hard life

Hard choices easy life

To see what is in front of one’s nose requires constant struggle.

Russian saying:

“Life is hard but, fortunately, short.”

Kafka in his Diaries writes that there are two cardinal sins from which all others sins derive: impatience and laziness.

I understand there's a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed, smoke weed all day, and watch cartoons and old movies. My whole life is a series of stratagems to avoid, and outwit, that guy.

Tools can be a subtle trap.

-- The Sandman

In the wise words of Carson, the butler of Downton Abbey, “The business of life is the acquisition of memories. In the end that’s all there is.”