Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

You must put aside the passing moments of terror and temptation, and focus on what’s most important in the

vital few and trivial many.

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.

lest problems of money, property or prestige divert us from our primary purpose.

Face your big troubles, don’t sweep them under the rug.

for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

Let us not concur casually about the most important matters.

We overvalue nonessentials like a nicer car or house, or even intangibles like the number of our followers on Twitter or the way we look in our Facebook photos. As a result, we neglect activities that are truly essential, like spending time with our loved ones, or nurturing our spirit, or taking care of our health.

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

Terribleness is part of greatness: let us not deceive ourselves.

But sins must not be overlooked simply because the sinner is skilled.

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all