Dream of the stars, but dream too of a road that takes you there.
From The Beginning Viewed from the End, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
Clear night, cold, and the man in the gray house dragged his telescope onto the back steps again. He has had it three winters now. Tonight he never uncapped it; he stood with his hands in his pockets and looked up the way a person looks at a bakery window after closing. I used to think wanting a thing badly enough was most of the work, that the wanting would eventually drag the rest along behind it like a kite does its string. Dream of the stars, but dream too of a road that takes you there. The telescope was still out at midnight with frost on the barrel, and I do not know whether he will carry it in or leave it.
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.
Have it on something
More like it
- When you squeeze something into your day, you squeeze something out.
- The only one-word lie I know is tomorrow.
- Most of the good roads are long roads.
- You can speed up to keep pace with the world or slow down and watch the world keep pace with you.
- Knowledge leaves a well-worn trail, but the path to wisdom is unmarked.
- It’s not your path if your feet never touch it.