We keep looking for more truth, while forgetting to live the truth we have already found.
From Taking Everything into Account, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
A man came to the bench below me with three books and read none of them. He opened the first, put a finger in it, opened the second, then stacked all three and watched the parking lot for twenty minutes. For years I took that kind of thing for laziness, and I was wrong; he looked like someone who had found what he needed in the first book and could not bear to go home and do it. We keep looking for more truth, while forgetting to live the truth we have already found. I have a dozen pages here on hunger and I still eat whatever is nearest the feeder. The light went orange on the hoods of the cars and he put the books in his bag one at a time, carefully, like they were owed something.
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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- Geniuses change everything, sometimes for the better.
- You are more likely to find the truth looking for a flower than to find a flower looking for the truth.
- Necessity is the mother of invention, but it helps if there’s an inventor in the room.
- Every life is a struggle, but not every life is an education.
- The student of history is a student of humility.