Stephen Starring Grant > Quotes

“To be present in time, in your own body, your spirit intact, your selfhood whole. It is a gift. And it will not last.”
― Stephen Starring Grant, Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home

“Why grab a few ballots when you can just grab the whole US Capitol?”
― Stephen Starring Grant, Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home

“But I wasn’t a mailman anymore. I was just an ordinary person again. Just another white-collar ghost with a job that nobody understands.”
― Stephen Starring Grant, Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home

“Being great hadn’t led me to my essential selfhood. Sucking did.”
― Stephen Starring Grant, Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home

“To be present in time, in your own body, your spirit intact, your selfhood whole, it is a gift—and it will not last.”
― Stephen Starring Grant, Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home

“If you're wondering how I knew he was a Libertarian, then you've never spent any time with Libertarians, because all youi need to do is wait five minutes.”
― Stephen Starring Grant, Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home

“When we are in trouble, the people who love us will come for us in the dark. They will come with flashlights and tow straps and whatever else it takes, if we just call out for their help.”
― Stephen Starring Grant, Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home

“But work does not define us as humans. What I had missed in my decades of corporate life, the fundamental confusion I labored under. Was that work, was reality. All the years I had been working, the world went on. The sun on the clouds in the morning, the goodness of a decent lunch, the privacy of your own thoughts, the love of your children, the great gift of being a father in a loving family. I had been prodigal with the abundance of life.”
― Stephen Starring Grant, Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home

“The Postal Service has never seen the American people as consumers, but as citizens.”
― Stephen Starring Grant, Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home

“It’s always the small dogs that start shit.”
― Stephen Starring Grant, Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home

“In psychologist Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl says that even when everything has been taken from you, you can choose your attitude: “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
― Stephen Starring Grant, Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home

“I’ve always found hate alarmingly easy to access”
― Stephen Starring Grant, Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home

“THIS ISN’T GOING TO GET BETTER. THIS IS FUCK CITY. HOW HAS THIS BECOME MY LIFE?”
― Stephen Starring Grant, Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home