Two people can have a middling day, but one rounds up and the other rounds down.
One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.
Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.
In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.
There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.
Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.