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Quotes About Alive

That could be a nice bonus to our incredible integrity-filled decision to keep him alive at the end.
~ Edward Gross
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.
~ Edward Levi
I hope you all find yourself sleeping with someone you love, maybe not all of the time, but a lot of the time. The touch of a foot in the night is sincere. I hope you like your work, I hope there's mystery and poetry in your life, not even poems, but patterns. I hope you can see them. Often these patterns will wake you up, and you will know that you are alive, again and again.
~ Eileen Myles
What I started to understand was that the poem was made out of time–past, present and future. It lives in the present, it breathes there and that's how you let anyone in. I think people can feel this accessing of time in poetry very readily. As soon as the poem ceases to be about anything, when it even stops saving things, stops being such a damn collector, it becomes an invite to the only refuge which is the impossible moment of being alive.
~ Eileen Myles
Interviews Ntozake Shange) "What do you think an artist's job is?" "To keep our sensibilities alive, so we aren't numb by our struggles to survive. That's what I think our job is right now.
~ Eileen Myles
For some people history is a Beach or a Tower or a Graveyard. For me it was a giant primordial Toyshop with all its windows gloriously ablaze…It was my present for being alive.
~ Elaine Dundy
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
~ Eleonora Duse
Before Papaji, I didn't have a life; I had a story of suffering. But in the meeting of Papaji, I have only life; I am only life." In meeting this huge force that has the potential to stop the suffering of one's life, there is a recognition of what is alive, the living truth. Not abstractly, not theoretically, not in some hypothetical past or future, but the
~ Eli Jaxon-Bear
Maybe what shame needs to stay alive is the consent of the shamed.
~ Ariel Gore
When you play by the rules, defy mental demons, overcome every challenge, and enjoy a walk in the country at the same time—that's being alive.
~ Arnold Palmer
The Camino is a form of extended walking meditation, a practice in many traditions. "Each mindful breath, each mindful step, reminds us that we are alive on this beautiful planet," explains the Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh.[14] "We don't need anything else. It is wonderful enough just to be alive, to breathe in, and to make one step.
~ Arthur C. Brooks
The life force knows exactly what it takes to keep any particular living organism - any organism - alive. Anything in manifestation, for that matter. Even a rock is a manifestation of some sort, and you know, in physics and quantum physics, they know a rock is not dead.
~ Lindsay Wagner
Watching people getting absorbed in news, I have learned that if the media wants, it can empower citizens with its brave questions. It can make India's democracy more alive.
~ Ravish Kumar
My neighbors are quiet. I am not. I don't know if they're dead or alive.
~ Charo
I think for me, I've always come back to the fact that I feel most alive when I'm racing. That sounds very cliche, but for me the reason I feel that is because racing is that opportunity to really find your limit.
~ Mary Cain
Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
~ Harold Brodkey
The reviews are getting better, but they always do, in time, if you're still alive.
~ Jim Harrison
People want to be a part of an organization that lets them be fully alive and bring their gifts to work. People really do want to be engaged and feel proud of their contribution.
~ Robin S. Sharma
I'm just glad I'm still here.
~ Jeff Bauman
Knut Hamsun's writing is magical. His sentences are glowing; he could write about anything and make it alive. Of contemporary writers, Thure Erik Lund is my definite favorite.
~ Karl Ove Knausgard
Ours is a shockingly dead view of creation. We ourselves are the only things in the universe to which we grant an authentic vitality, and because of this we are not fully alive.
~ Frederick Turner
This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. It is possible that they may be among those who understand my "Zarathustra": how could I confound myself with those who are now sprouting ears?—First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.
~ Johnny Winter