You can neither lose what is precious to you nor keep the box it came in.
From The Anticipation of Loss, 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.
Have it on something
More like it
- A strawberry uneaten will not long remain a strawberry.
- A life with endless sunshine would be a life without starry nights.
- Everything is new, but few things are seen anew.
- Looking way ahead is not very farsighted.
- It is hard to be in two places at once and harder to be in one.
- Nothing you do matters if you’re not there when it happens.