I’m an optimist because I believe the pessimists are right, but not for much longer.
From Leaving No Stone Unthrown, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The elm by the mailbox came down in the storm Tuesday, and I spent most of Wednesday watching the men cut it into rounds. Switch declared the whole neighborhood finished, no more acorns, no more anything, and he said it from the stump of the tree, which he had already begun to find useful. For years I thought the argument was whether things were bad, and I came down hard on the side that they were. Now I think the pessimists have the facts and the wrong tense. I'm an optimist because I believe the pessimists are right, but not for much longer. By evening there were ants working the fresh cut and a junco in the gap where the crown used to block the light.
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
- There are few judgments made less true by being made less harsh.
- Living in a black-and-white world drains life not only of its color, but its wisdom.
- We expect life to treat us all the same though we each ask for something different.
- Not every light lights the way home.
- Those who are lost try hardest to get others to follow.
- Most men want what most men want.