Life would be easy if habits weren't easier.
From The Sum of All One's Mistakes, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The woman on the corner has put out a feeder of the kind I cannot use, a narrow tube made for finches, and I went to it four times today knowing that. Four times. I used to think a habit was a thing you built, like a nest, with some labor and a plan; it is nothing of the sort, it is a path worn by the walking and I have never once decided to walk it. There is good millet two yards off on the Hendricks fence rail, which takes thought to remember and no effort at all to reach. Life would be easy if habits weren't easier. Switch came by and said he has buried acorns in the same bad spot since he was small, under the downspout, where they rot, and he knows they rot. He said it as though reporting weather.
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
- 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!
- While you are waiting for the perfect moment to act, a garden of good enough moments flower and wilt.
- You don't trust your wings because you don't trust the air.
- It’s good to learn from your mistakes and better to learn from others’.
- I've been so busy changing the scenery, I forgot to change the story.