"There is an assumption, in attaching Puritan concepts such as 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' to the awful, final act of suicide, that those who 'fail' at killing themselves not only are weak, but incompetent, incapable even of getting their dying quite right."

-- Kay Redfield Jamison

#Suicide Quotes #Successful Quotes #Dying Quotes

“I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.”
“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.”

Source : Bruce Barton (1959). “The Man and the Book Nobody Knows”
“If you risk nothing you gain nothing”

Source : Bear Grylls (2012). “A Survival Guide for Life”, p.212, Random House
“There will always be a spiritual light that beckons to us, giving us the hope of rescue and relief.”
“Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence.”
“He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.”

Source : Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.463
“And he says I have lousy timing”
“Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics - this is the reason why quantum mechanics seems so foreign to our everyday existence.”

Source : "Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics: Collected Papers on Quantum Philosophy". Book by J. S. Bell, 2004.

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