It hurts more pulling out of a trap than getting caught in one.
From Breathing Lessons, one of 284 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
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.
More like it
- Breathing is the metronome of life.
- I'm too old to have a mid-life crisis.
- Drinking and smoking yourself to death aren’t as cool as they used to be.
- We take many things for granted that become precious once we lose them.
- The wise welcome confusion as a bridge to understanding.
- The pen is mightier than the sword and it's refillable.