"Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, Iâ€™ve managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when theyâ€™re apparently going well, I feel I am living on the razorâ€™s edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliationâ€”between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive,"

-- Scott Stossel

#Fighting Quotes #Missing Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.”
“Answer your phone. Get call forwarding. Or an answering service. Hire staff if you need to. But make sure that someone is picking up the phone when someone calls your business.”
“I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.”
“How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.”

Source : Grace Noll Crowell, “Thank You Friend”
“I might not be a psychiatrist, but I am convinced that sex is not as important as we tend to make it. First there is that little feeling, that little red flame, called love. Blow on the flame and make it get bigger like a fire, don't blow it out like a candle.”
“What happens to conservatives when they get near the White House? How come they only seem to be talking the good talk at, say, the Senate level, when they don't have to run the show?”
“The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.”
“I just look at what's going on in the world.”

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