After all is said and done, there is more to say and do.
From The Sum of All One's Mistakes, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The man two yards over finished his fence today, the one he started in April. He stood back with the hammer still in his hand and looked at it a long while, and I thought he was admiring it, but then he went and got the paint. For years I took endings seriously, the way you take a sunset seriously the first few hundred times, before you notice the light comes back and asks for something. After all is said and done, there is more to say and do. Switch ate half an acorn and buried the other half, which is either patience or a failure to finish, and I have never been able to decide which. The fence is white now on the side facing us and still raw pine on the side facing the road.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
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More like it
- Walking is for walking, not for going.
- You don’t get extra credit for the life you meant to live.
- Doing something halfway does not get you halfway there.
- After you ask how much you want something, ask how wise you are to want it.
- Before you start pushing a rock up a hill, make sure it’s a hill you want to climb.
- Ride the current from within if you want to make it all the way to the sea.