If you’re willing to take a long enough road, you can get anywhere.
From The Beginning Viewed from the End, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The construction on Mill Street has closed the block for the third week, and this morning I watched a woman in a brown coat walk two sides of a square to reach a bakery she could have thrown a roll at. She did not look put out. For years I thought the whole advantage of wings was the straight line, and I was smug about it; a crow goes over the fence, not around, and I believed that was the end of the argument. But the woman got her bread and I spent the afternoon stuck on a branch in the wind, holding still, going nowhere at all. If you're willing to take a long enough road, you can get anywhere. What I have not worked out is why the long way looks like failure from above and like a walk from down 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.
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More like it
- When you squeeze something into your day, you squeeze something out.
- The only one-word lie I know is tomorrow.
- Most of the good roads are long roads.
- You can speed up to keep pace with the world or slow down and watch the world keep pace with you.
- Knowledge leaves a well-worn trail, but the path to wisdom is unmarked.
- Dream of the stars, but dream too of a road that takes you there.