More aphorisms from “The Neurotic’s Notebook” (still out of print, but worth buying second hand).
Courage can’t see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.
True remorse is never just regret over consequence; it is regret over motive.
Self-discipline is the hardest thing to learn; you need self-discipline to learn it.
If despair will yield at all, it will yield to a good night’s sleep.
Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.
