Glad to be alive Quote by Vivian Gornick
““I nearly weep. All I had ever wanted was that my mother be glad to be alive in my presence. I am still certain that if she had been, I’d have grown up whole inside. “Imagine,” I say to Leonard. “She’s so old and she can still do this to me.” “It’s not how old she is that’s remarkable,” he says. “It’s how old you are.””
![“But then I got into Joseph Campbell—The Power of Myth and The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Joseph Campbell was the first person to really open my eyes to [the] compassionate side of life, or of thought. . . . Campbell was the guy who really kind of put it all together for me, and not in a way I…” quote by Timothy Ferriss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/256/timothy-ferriss-973_art_but-then-i-got-into-joseph-campbell-the_1747363.jpg)
