Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.