At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.
Anger or hate can be a useful motivating force
I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.
What urge will save us now that sex won't?
Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.
The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.