Don't milk the cow too hard. She will kick you.
Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.
Somehow the body keeps life going despite the ravaging negations of the mind.
The only peace is being out of earshot.
Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.
In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance.