Walking is for walking, not for going.
From The Sum of All One's Mistakes, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
A man came up the path from the lot this morning at the pace of somebody late, and then stopped at the top and turned around and went back down and did it again. Switch thought he had forgotten something in the car. He had not; he did four more lengths and then sat on the bench with his hands on his knees, breathing. For years I took the ground route to be a failure of wings, a thing you did only because you could not get above it, and I pitied every creature stuck with it. Walking is for walking, not for going. The man's shoes were the wrong color for the mud and he did not seem to care, which is the part I keep coming back to.
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
- After you ask how much you want something, ask how wise you are to want it.
- Before you start pushing a rock up a hill, make sure it’s a hill you want to climb.
- Ride the current from within if you want to make it all the way to the sea.
- Measure success by how well you have used what you were given and how much you have given back.
- We resolve to do what we lack commitment to do.
- Is there a measure of success that does not include a measure of happiness?