Many vow to live lives of virtue as soon as they find the time.
From Taking Everything into Account, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
A man on the bench by the library ate his lunch in nine minutes today, timed by the clock over the door, and spent the rest of the hour telling the woman beside him what he would do when things slowed down in the spring. Volunteer at the shelter, call his brother, stop being the sort of person who eats lunch in nine minutes. I used to think this was lying, and I was hard about it for years. Watching him, I do not think he was lying at all; he meant every word, the way I mean to build a better nest each time the wind takes the old one. Many vow to live lives of virtue as soon as they find the time. Spring came and went twice while I was writing that sentence down, and I have no idea where he put his.
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
- Every life is a struggle, but not every life is an education.
- The student of history is a student of humility.
- Life is the history lesson you get to experience firsthand.
- The problem with being intelligent is that you have all that intelligence to use against yourself.
- Wisdom is first the wisdom of the child, meeting life innocently, eagerly, without expectation.
- The old road has lots of twists and turns but few surprises.