By Jim Hagarty
If you were to spend a half hour, face-to-face quality time with me, you would scream, by the end of the session and before you stormed out, “Would you please stop with the sayings!”
I’m a sayings junkie. I live my life by quotes. I research quotes on the Internet and I have a fabulous ability to remember them. If I haven’t peppered my conversation with you with at least five quotes, it’s as if we never talked at at all.
Quotes are tailor made for people with short attention spans. But for me, they are also the shorthand of philosophers. (Readers under 40 are just now asking, “What the hell is shorthand?”)
Sayings encourage thought, dress wounds, light fires under asses, and generally, keep us interested in life.
The amazing thing about my association with quotes is every little saying I stumble on is instantly my favourite one. At present, I have about 1,200 favourite ones.
Here is my favourite saying:
“The heart has its reason which reason cannot know.”