Hope draws on a power you cannot see or touch but can feel in still moments.
From The Easy Virtue, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
Fog all morning, so thick the far fence was a rumor. I sat on the gutter and did nothing, which is harder than it sounds, and around eleven the air moved against my back without a sound and the whole yard came out from under it. For years I took hope for a kind of arithmetic, a guess about tomorrow that a person could be talked out of if you had the better figures. But the woman two houses down has been putting seed out since her husband died in March, and nothing about her face says she expects him back. Hope draws on a power you cannot see or touch but can feel in still moments. Switch asked what moved the fog and I had no answer; I only noticed it had been moving the whole time I was sitting there.
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
- If your feet are tapping, your heart is beating.
- If you want someone to listen, say something worth listening to.
- If people aren’t stupid, why do they have so much trouble understanding me?
- Good friends can share a laugh at no one's expense.
- Your place in the world does not depend on who acknowledges it.
- Hope is longing made easier by faith.