It doesn’t all fit because it’s not all needed.
From A Pocket Guide to Being Human, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
Switch spent the better part of the morning trying to get four walnuts into a hole that holds three. He took one out, put another in, sat back, tried a different order, as though arithmetic might soften if approached from the side. I used to think the trick was a bigger hole; for years I built wider and wider nests and lost eggs out the sides of them. It doesn't all fit because it's not all needed. The fourth walnut is still on the fence post where he left it, and he has not once looked back at it, and I cannot tell whether that is wisdom or just a short memory. The hole is full and he is asleep on top of it.
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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- It takes a lot inside to match all the outside can throw at you.
- How easy it would be to change, if the people around us would change first!
- You can have a reason to hate someone and not use it.
- When you no longer need to be right, you more often will be.
- Ideas grow best in the space between two minds.
- Your ability to find peace in your heart was not put there for the times things go right.