"Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not count."

-- Susan Griffin

#Dying Quotes #Becoming Quotes #Frightening Quotes

“Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.”
“Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States.”
“When I exercise, I like to take lots of different classes because I want to really apply myself and feel like I'm learning a new skill. Not that I ever want to have to demonstrate any of those skills!”
“Only Christianity and its teachings can explain the purpose and meaning of this world--and also gives the basis for right and wrong, good and evil, etc.”
“What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?”
“You will learn more about the people you work with in three minutes by asking them what they do for nothing, than by working with them for three years in the same team”
“If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?”
“Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have received what I suppose is a taste for them, or religion has refined my mind and made it susceptible of impressions from the sublime and beautiful. O, how religion secures the heightened enjoyment of those pleasures which keep so many from God, by their becoming a source of pride!”

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