If you’re tired of the same old story, you’re not as tired as you think.
From Freedom and Other Responsibilities, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The woman on the bench by the library has told me about her brother three times this month, and today she told me again, the same brother, the same car, the same Thanksgiving. I used to think repetition was a kind of wearing out, the way a path across a lawn goes bald. But she sat forward when she got to the part about the car. Her hands did the same thing they did in October. If you're tired of the same old story, you're not as tired as you think; the tired ones put it down and walk off to talk about the weather. I have no idea what she will do when she finally gets bored of it, and I am not sure she will.
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
- We may not be the master of our own fate, but we are its chief architect.
- If it wasn’t your first time, it won’t be your last.
- We hold ourselves less accountable for the things we meant to do otherwise.
- Is a tree not free because it has a root growing into the earth?
- Is there a star the heavens can do without?
- Every life is a struggle, but not every life is an education.