If you can think of times in your life that youâve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself. And I think itâs probably possible to achieve that. I think part of the job weâre here for is to learn how to do it -
David Foster Wallace