Everyone has a breaking point, which many have gone beyond without breaking.
From A Pocket Guide to Being Human, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The oak by the Dunlap place lost its west limb in the ice last winter, the big one, and I was sure that was the end of the tree. All spring I watched it put out leaves on the side it had left. There was a woman on the bench below it today who told her friend she could not take one more thing, and then told her, in the same breath, what the one more thing had been and what she had done about it on Tuesday. I used to think a person had a number, and that past the number came the crack. Everyone has a breaking point, which many have gone beyond without breaking. The limb is still lying there in the grass, going soft, and the tree above it is full of noise.
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
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- The moments I fear most summon the powers I need most.
- It takes a lot inside to match all the outside can throw at you.
- How easy it would be to change, if the people around us would change first!
- You can have a reason to hate someone and not use it.
- When you no longer need to be right, you more often will be.