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Quotes About Alive

The pain is a reminder that I'm lucky to be alive.
~ Unknown
If He left me alone for one moment, I would be the most wretched person alive. Yet I do not know how He could possibly leave me alone. Faith gives me a strong conviction, stronger than my senses ever could, that He never forsakes us, unless we first forsake Him. Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.
~ Unknown
these severely traumatized patients, people who have been through living nightmares, people who might blamelessly choose death, often emerge from successful treatment by constructing lives for themselves that are freer than most ordinary lives from what Sigmund Freud, a century ago, labeled as "everyday misery." They become true keepers of the faith and are the most passionately alive people I know. Or
~ Martha Stout
But I needed them to trust me so I could keep them alive and keep doing my job. The good version of my job, not the half-assed version of my job that I'd been doing before things started trying to kill my clients.
~ Martha Wells
Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted
~ Arlo Guthrie
'Why do we have to listen to our hearts?' 'Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure.' 'But my heart is agitated,' the boy said. 'It has its dreams, it gets emotional, and it's become passionate over a woman of the desert. It asks things of me, and it keeps me from sleeping many nights, when I'm thinking about her.' 'Well, that's good. Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say.'
~ Paulo Coelho
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
~ Maureen Duffy
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
~ Joseph Campbell
My life, my rules, I can break them or I can bend them , I take nothing for granted and have everything to gain, I am thankful for my life and I am happy to be alive, I intend to enjoy every moment, every minute, every hour and every day I am here on this earth.
~ Unknown
We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.
~ Mary McDonnell
it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.
~ Mary Oliver
When it´s bad I feel like I´ve been hit by an anvil, shattered like cartoon characters but without the instant recovery. That´s the deep pit where I feel all lost and alone. But when it´s good, it´s as if all my nerve endings are deliciously electrified; I´m on fire inside and swept off my feet by the passion and energy that washes over me. That´s the pinnacle where I am truly alive
~ Unknown
When you utter words which reinforce the truth—that every human being is divine and luminous—and when you also utter words that inspire others' souls, then you have made others truly alive.
~ Masami Saionji
But not just alive like I was yesterday and the day before. Alive like I knew I was alive. Like I could feel the breaths coming into my chest. And I knew I was the person inside my own body.
~ Matt de la Pena
10. Breathe. Breathe deep and pure and smooth. Concentrate on it. Breathing is the pace you set your life at. It's the rhythm of the song of you. It's how to get back to the centre of things. The centre of yourself. When the world wants to take you in every other direction. It was the first thing you learned to do. The most essential and simple thing you do. To be aware of breath is to remember you are alive.
~ Matt Haig
Breathe. Breathe deep and pure and smooth. Concentrate on it. Breathing is the pace you set your life at. It's the rhythm of the song of you. It's how to get back to the center of things. The center of yourself. When the world wants to take you in every other direction. It was the first thing you learned to do. The most essential and simple thing you do. To be aware of breath is to remember you are alive.
~ Matt Haig
Somehow I'd hoped that this would be the summer that I would discover that I was alive. The world my mom and dad said was out there waiting for me. That world doesn't actually exist.
~ Matt Haig
There was such a yearning and energy to it. I closed my eyes. I could not describe here on the page how I felt. The very reason such music exists is because it is a language that couldn't be communicated in any other way. But all I can say is that I felt suddenly alive again.
~ Matt Haig
We are as completely and utterly alive as we are in any other life and have access to the same emotional spectrum.
~ Matt Haig
I)t was different because she was alive, when she had so nearly been dead. And because that had been her choice. A choice to live. Because she had touched the vastness of life and within that vastness she had seen the possibility not only of what she could do, but also feel.
~ Matt Haig
Yes. The cat guy. He said that in quantum physics every alternative possibility happens simultaneously. All at once. In the same place. Quantum superposition. The cat in the box is both alive and dead. You could open the box and see that it was alive or dead, that's how it goes, but in one sense, even after the box is open, the cat is still both alive and dead.
~ Matt Haig
As she spoke, Mrs Elm's eyes came alive, twinkling like puddles in moonlight.
~ Matt Haig
And it was different because she was alive, when she had so nearly been dead. And because that had been her choice. A choice to live.
~ Matt Haig
Three simple words containing the power and potential of a multiverse. I AM ALIVE.
~ Matt Haig