--- title: "1 Tolerate Middle Quotes By Carol Mason" description: "1 Tolerate Middle quotes by Carol Mason. Plus more from Carol Mason and more Tolerate Middle sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/656/carol-mason-18018_middle-ground_we-have-to-put-ourselves-through-it-to-f_829875.jpg" --- > [“We have to put ourselves through it to feel we’re alive. We thrive in the extremes of unparalleled joy and abject misery. What we can’t much tolerate is the middle ground.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-mason/we-have-to-put-ourselves-through-it-to-feel-we-re-alive-we-thrive-in/) [Carol Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-mason/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/656/carol-mason-18018_middle-ground_we-have-to-put-ourselves-through-it-to-f_829875.jpg) ## More by Carol Mason > [“Just remember one thing Angela and then I promise I’ll shut up.’      ‘Can I get that in writing?’      ‘You”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-mason/just-remember-one-thing-angela-and-then-i-promise-i-ll-shut-up-can-i/) [Carol Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-mason/) > [“If you want to be in love, you have to accept that you run the risk of having your heart broken in such a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-mason/if-you-want-to-be-in-love-you-have-to-accept-that-you-run-the-risk-of/) [Carol Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-mason/) > [“The weights and measures of a marriage; we know things but we choose not to think about them. We choose to bury our heads…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-mason/the-weights-and-measures-of-a-marriage-we-know-things-but-we-choose/) [Carol Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-mason/) > [“If you want to be in love, you have to accept that you run the risk of having your heart broken in such a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-mason/if-you-want-to-be-in-love-you-have-to-accept-that-you-run-the-risk-of-2/) [Carol Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-mason/) > [“The value of your life is in all the unexceptional details.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-mason/the-value-of-your-life-is-in-all-the-unexceptional-details/) [Carol Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-mason/) > [“Those are the best memories, you know. Memories of things that end when they should. Always remember.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-mason/those-are-the-best-memories-you-know-memories-of-things-that-end-when/) [Carol Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-mason/) > [“had to create a false truth: that taking another woman’s husband is okay, especially if perhaps you have succeeded where she has failed: in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-mason/had-to-create-a-false-truth-that-taking-another-woman-s-husband-is/) [Carol Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-mason/) > [“It shouldn’t always be the big, dramatic events that make you sit up and take notice. The value of your life is in all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-mason/it-shouldn-t-always-be-the-big-dramatic-events-that-make-you-sit-up/) [Carol Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-mason/) > [“off. I would have been a very lucky man if I’d managed to get”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-mason/off-i-would-have-been-a-very-lucky-man-if-i-d-managed-to-get/) [Carol Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-mason/) > [“We have to put ourselves through it to feel we’re alive. We thrive in the extremes of unparalleled joy and abject misery. What we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-mason/we-have-to-put-ourselves-through-it-to-feel-we-re-alive-we-thrive-in/) [Carol Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-mason/) > [“I’m interested in you and I like you. I want to know all the little things that make you the person who a very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-mason/i-m-interested-in-you-and-i-like-you-i-want-to-know-all-the-little/) [Carol Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-mason/) > [“I don’t think I’ve ever noticed how silence is a sound of its own.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-mason/i-don-t-think-i-ve-ever-noticed-how-silence-is-a-sound-of-its-own/) [Carol Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-mason/) > [“Coming into the home where I grew up always fills me with a confused nostalgia. Everything is as it has been for thirty years.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-mason/coming-into-the-home-where-i-grew-up-always-fills-me-with-a-confused/) [Carol Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-mason/) > [“That grey area between what we know and what we think we know.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-mason/that-grey-area-between-what-we-know-and-what-we-think-we-know/) [Carol Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-mason/) > [“remember Justin telling me about how, when he heard his dad had died, he ran away. He was only missing a few hours –…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-mason/remember-justin-telling-me-about-how-when-he-heard-his-dad-had-died/) [Carol Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-mason/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tolerate-middle/carol-mason/#itemlist", "name": "1 Tolerate Middle Quotes By Carol Mason", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“We have to put ourselves through it to feel we’re alive. We thrive in the extremes of unparalleled joy and abject misery. 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