This is how the whole of our life slips by. We seek repose by battling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome we find rest is unbearab… - Blaise Pascal

We seek rest in a struggle against some obstacles. And when we have overcome these, rest proves unbearable because of the boredom it produces...

We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if were found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to stay it's too rapid flight. We are so unwise that we wander about in times that do not belong to us, and do not think of the only one that does; so vain that we dream of times that are not and blindly flee the only one that is. The fact is the present usually hurts. We thrust it out of sight because it distresses us, and if we find it enjoyable, we are sorry to see it slip away. We try to give it the support of the future, and think how we are going to arrange things over which we have no control for a time we can never be sure of reaching. (Page 9)

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference...

The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus, we never actually live, but hope to live.