As Thanksgiving, out-of-town relatives, and the decades-long-in-arriving automobile manufacturers implosion all approach, this thought occurred to me:

Contentment comes from wanting what you have, ambition from wanting what the other person has, and progress from wanting what nobody has.

Fear? It comes from wanting to keep what you have when something threatens to take it away.

What makes migraines worse than most other forms of intense agony is that they’re pointless.

If you break an arm, it hurts because it should. You can understand it — the pain is your body’s way of saying, “DON’T MOVE THAT ARM!” Migraines, in contrast, are excruciating for no good purpose. They hurt only because they hurt.