Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.
We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.
The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.
Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.
If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.