If we refuse to shake things up now and then, life will do it for us.
From The Sum of All One's Mistakes, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The elm by the Dolan place came down in the night, and I had nothing to do with it. For six winters I slept in the crook of its second limb and told myself I had chosen it, when the truth is I landed there once in a storm and never left. This morning there was sky where the tree had been and I sat on the fence looking at it like a fool. If we refuse to shake things up now and then, life will do it for us, and life has no interest in whether you were done sleeping. Switch says the pecan is better anyway, more traffic. I am not sure I wanted better; I think I wanted to be the one who moved.
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
- Measure success by how well you have used what you were given and how much you have given back.
- We resolve to do what we lack commitment to do.
- Is there a measure of success that does not include a measure of happiness?
- It's not how far the tree bends in the wind but whether it's uprooted.
- Better to lose your head following your heart than to lose your heart following your head.
- When you have done something well a dozen times, believe it!