playwright JM Barry observed the life of every man…
Page 149 playwright JM Barry observed the life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story and writes another and is humblest hours when he compares the volume as it is with what he had hoped to make it
— from The Landing (Death) · 15 invaluable laws of growth by John Maxwell.
In the book
The playwright J.M. Barrie said that the life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story and ends up writing another, and that his most humbling hours come when he compares the book he meant to write with the book he actually wrote. The way you keep those two books close together is to read the last page first. […] I have met many who wished they had spent more time with the people in their formation, and on the purpose they were given. The whole of a life, when it is finally tallied, is simply the honest sum of where the hours actually went — not where you meant them to go. This entire book is, in the plainest sense, my testament to you — not a will disposing of property, but a formal handing-over of what I actually learned in the air. — The Landing (Death)