Alive Quotes - Page 3

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

It's getting harder just to feel alive.

The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present.

...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.

Instead of the god of security, we bow to the greater god of freedom, the freedom to take risks and master danger in order to be intensely alive.

Perhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.

Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely, openly, lovingly. Love is what makes us alive.

Death can come at any minute, in any way. We do not know what is in store tomorrow, or, whether there is a tomorrow, or even a tonight! But still, we have the golden present. Now we are alive and kicking. What should we do now? Love all, serve all.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead.

Are you a stingy breather? Well, don't be. Be extravagant with you breathing and come fully alive.

I have been lucky in that I've been alive at times when the things that I wanted to do were capable of being done.

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.

When you feel pain, you know that you are still alive.

Hope is lived when it comes alive, when we go outside of ourselves and, in joy and pain take part in the lives of others.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.