Spring is when life's alive in everything.
For without love we will lose the will to live. Our mental and physical vitality is impaired, our resistance is lowered, and we succumb to illnesses that often prove fatal. We may escape actual death, but what remains is a meager and barren existence, emotionally so impoverished that we can only be called half alive.
If you make the goal of your life just to stay alive, you'll fail. If you make the goal of your life the kingdom, you cannot lose.
As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.
I can tell you that God is alive because I talked to him this morning.
If I weren't already dead, I'd be alive with joy.
How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?
. . . We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.
Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh. . . without destroying that moment.
You want to know, but are afraid to ask, whether or not I found someone. If there could be anyone to fill that hole in my heart after I lost him. I did. "Life is futile," says my new therapist, Michaela, "and no one gets out of it alive. There is only love.
The single most important key to sex that I've yet discovered is conscious rhythmic breathing; the more you breathe the more you feel and the more you come alive. Many of us breathe only enough to survive but not to live fully. Deep breathing is a door to waking up to healing and to more personal freedom.
Volunteerism is vital in all times; it keeps our communities alive. . . and will make a difference in the lives of those who will come after us.
I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
Being scared is part of being alive. Accept it. Walk through it.
What I'm doing is keeping the spirit of Rock'N Roll alive. Rock 'n roll is supposed to be fast and loud and its supposed to piss off the older generation.
On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?'
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
I’ve never tried to keep a specific person alive before, and it’s much more troublesome than I would have believed. But that’s probably just because it’s you. Ordinary people seem to make it through the day without so many catastrophes.
I won't be alive so I won't care who finds me.
Is this freedom? Is it happiness? I don't know. I don't care anymore. It is different--it is being alive.