"No matter how huge your loss, as long as you remain engaged with your life, the best days of your life may still be ahead of you. Don't misunderstand me: the pain of your loss will remain with you for the rest of your life. But great joy will be there right beside it. Deep sorrow and deep joy can exist within you, side by side. At every moment. And it's not confusing. And it's not a conflict."

Source : Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.100, Macmillan

Augusten Burroughs

#Pain Quotes #Loss Quotes #Long Quotes

“I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism.”

Source : Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.240, Penguin
“Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?”
“The footpath down to the well is healed.”
“I mean, I always think when you're an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning building rather than running out of it, if you want to make some noise as an actor.”
“To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.”
“I think that music has been a great help to me and this has been confirmed by every psychiatrist I have seen. I would probably be dead if not for music.”
“My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.”

Source : "Family Survival". Interview with Arthur Holmberg, americanrepertorytheater.org.
“It turns out we're very good at not seeing things”

Source : Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 5, 2012.

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