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Quotes About Alive

And these things that keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient, they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue. They want us to change them completely, in our invisible hearts, into -- O endlessly -- us! Whoever, finally, we may be.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
So many are alive who don't seem to care. Casual, easy, they move in the world as though untouched. But you take pleasure in the faces of those who know they thirst. You cherish those who grip you for survival. You are not dead yet, it's not too late to open your depths by plunging into them and drink in the life that reveals itself quietly there.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
So many are alive who don't seem to care. Casual, easy, they move in the world as though untouched.   But you take pleasure in the faces of those who know they thirst. You cherish those who grip you for survival.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Psychologist David Powlison says, "Don't ever degenerate into giving good advice unconnected with the good news of Jesus crucified, alive, present, at work, and returning.
~ Randy Alcorn
My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing.
~ Ranier Maria Rilke
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.
~ Ray Bradbury
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We must earn life once it has been awarded us. Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation. So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.
~ Ray Bradbury
I feel alive for the first time in years. I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you. I suppose I'll have to do even more violent things, exposing myself so I won't fall down on the job and turn scared again
~ Ray Bradbury
To be asleep is to be dead. It is like death. So we dance, we dance so as not to be dead. We do not want that.
~ Ray Bradbury
The girl stopped and looked as if she might pull back in surprise, but instead stood regarding Montag with eyes so dark and shining and alive, that he felt he had said something quite wonderful. But he knew his his mouth had only moved to say hello
~ Ray Bradbury
This is the emotional thing, you see — you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.
~ Ray Bradbury
So, yeah, insane people give me hope. Courage to go on being sane and alive, always with the cure at hand, should I ever tire and need it: madness.
~ Ray Bradbury
So I collected comics, fell in love with carnivals and World's Fairs and began to write. And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.
~ Ray Bradbury
People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
~ Joseph Campbell
Myth helps you to put your mind in touch with this experience of being alive. It tells you what the experience is.
~ Joseph Campbell
Be thankful you're healthy." "Be bitter you're not going to stay that way." "Be glad you're even alive." "Be furious you're going to die.
~ Joseph Heller
There were billions of conscientious body cells oxidating away day and night like dumb animals at their complicated job of keeping him alive and healthy, and every one was a potential traitor and foe.
~ Joseph Heller
But come here, fear I am alive and you are so afraid of dying
~ Joy Harjo
There are still ancient symbols alive
~ Joy Harjo
She will speculate that she didn't fully know her husband—this will give her leverage to seek him, to come to know him. It will keep her husband "alive" in her memory—elusive, teasing.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Having a rough morning? Place your hand over your heart. Feel that? It's called purpose. You're alive for a reason.
~ Joyce Meyer
It was a sunny, beautiful day.a day you felt good to be alive. Tobad amy Cahill was surrounded by the dead. Amy bowed her head and squeezed Her eyes shut. She was only sixteen, but she had attended too many funerals. She had said to many goodbyes
~ Jude Watson
I am terribly glad to be alive and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American with all the rights and privileges that those words connote. And most of all I am humbled before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.
~ Wallace Stegner
It matters, because everything we say Of the past is description without place, a cast Of the imagination, made in sound; And because what we say of the future must portend, Be alive with its own seemings, seeming to be Like rubies reddened by rubies reddening.
~ Wallace Stevens