Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Taking It Well
What’s your attitude to receiving advice? Suspicion, annoyance, heartfelt welcome? A barely controllable desire to clobber the advicer with a hardback collection of wise sayings?
What about giving advice?
An Act of Piety
“When Providence throws a good book in my way, I bow to its decree and purchase it as an act of piety, if it is reasonably or unreasonably cheap. I adopt a certain number of books every year, out of a love for the foundlings and stray children of other people’s brains that nobody seems to care for.”
from The Poet at the Breakfast Table
by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.