How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.
Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.
If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.
I noticed you tore down Donovan's house. " He lifted his gaze until it locked with mine. "He's alive because he left town. His house chose to stay. It paid the price.
The 'halo effect' is clearly alive and well.
When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won't greet twice.
Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.
Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
The BBC did a survey of the top 50 things to do before we die. Not while we're still alive, before we die.
Books are not men and yet they are alive.
A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic dead or alive - Hajime Saito
Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.
There isn't a person alive who doesn't like being caressed.
Whom shall I call on? Who will share with me The wretched happiness of staying alive?
It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.
Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say
I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake--especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.
Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.
When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.
The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them.