While you are waiting for the perfect moment to act, a garden of good enough moments flower and wilt.
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 in the yellow house has been meaning to plant her side bed since March. I know because she says it out loud, to the dog, to the mailman, to nobody. Today the volunteer sunflowers she never asked for finished their whole business of coming up, leaning, and going brown, and she stood at the screen door with the seed packets still in her hand. For years I thought waiting was a kind of respect, that you honored a thing by not rushing it; I waited out three good springs that way before I understood I had simply missed them. While you are waiting for the perfect moment to act, a garden of good enough moments flower and wilt. Switch ate one of the heads off the fence post and did not seem to consider any of this.
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
- It's not how far the tree bends in the wind but whether it's uprooted.
- 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!
- 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’.
- Life would be easy if habits weren't easier.