You can have a reason to hate someone and not use it.
From A Pocket Guide to Being Human, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
There is a jay on the far side of the yard who took my suet cage apart in March and has never apologized, not that jays do. I spent that spring working up the case against him, and it was a good case. Today he was on the fence in the cold with his feathers out and I sat on the fence too, four posts down, and neither of us said anything about March. You can have a reason to hate someone and not use it. For years I thought a grievance was like a seed, that if you held it long enough it would come to something; it mostly just sits there in the cheek, taking up room. I do not know whether I forgave him or only got tired, and from the inside those feel much the same.
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
- When you no longer need to be right, you more often will be.
- Ideas grow best in the space between two minds.
- Your ability to find peace in your heart was not put there for the times things go right.
- Kindness works well with strangers, but even better with those close to you who have ceased to expect it.
- Humility makes you grateful and gratitude makes you kind.
- The true gift leaves no trace on the hand of the giver.