Alive Quotes - Page 2

• We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

  Thornton Wilder

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Thornton Wilder (1958). “The Cabala ; The Woman of Andros”

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• To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

  Pema Chodron

  Experience, Nests, Awake

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.93, Shambhala Publications

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• Man is a piece of the universe made alive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Pieces, Made

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.322, Harvard University Press

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• I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." Another "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strong Women, Empowering, Curiosity

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.

  Joseph Campbell

  Motivational, Pain, Suffering

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• Books are not men and yet they are alive.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Book, Men

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• Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

  e. e. cummings

  Life, Beautiful, Death

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• Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

  Havelock Ellis

  Love, Jealousy, Hate

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.73, Elsevier

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• By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Spiritual, Yoga, Deep Life

  "The evolutions of ethics". The Atlantic Monthly, CCII, reprinted in "Unified English", Ardent Media, p. 247, November 1958.

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• If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

  Earl Wilson

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

  Irv Kupcinet

  Society, God Is Dead

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• The only way to store information is by agreement. The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind. Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive. Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Believe, Book, Being In Love

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• Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

  William Saroyan

  Soon Enough, Trying, Live Life Happy

  William Saroyan (1934). “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

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• For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.

  Brian May

  Queens, Answers, Want

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• The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

  George Edward Moore

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

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• Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Night, Men, Self

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.

  Thomas Jane

  Challenges, Challenging Myself, Helping

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• Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.

  John French Sloan

  Speak, Wells

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• The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Stay Strong, Giving Up, Numbers

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• Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

  Horace Greeley

  Media, Journalism, Journalist

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• In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man’s proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Names, Mind

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.817, Hamilton Books

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• I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Posthumous

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• So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.

  Corrine Brown

  Florida, Jim Crow Laws, Two

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• I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.

  Jewel

  Feelings, Half, Feels

  Song: You Were Meant for Me, Album: Pieces Of You, 1995

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• I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.

  Jewel

  Bored, Challenges, Looking For Love

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