“An over examination of life can deter you from life itself”
“The over examined life is not worth living.”
“The over examined life, Claire, it's not worth living.”
“An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.”
“The paradox of life lies exactly in this: its resources are finite, but it itself is endless. Such a contradictory state of affairs is feasible only because the resources accessible to life can be used over and over again.”
“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”