Best Alive Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?”

Ifs Kids Moral Alive Complexity

Author:Richard Louv

“A huge part of youth is how you behave: I'm always looking for fun and anything that makes me feel alive - that in itself keeps me feeling young.”

Feels Feelings Young Fun Alive Youth Huge Behave

Author:Martine McCutcheon

“As I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.”

Ifs Persons Said Stills Ends Would Be Found Alive Boring Investigation Resumes Boring Person

Author:Jodie Foster

“People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive.”

People Men Alive

Author:Tracy Morgan

“You know, every year has been fantastic for me, I'm still here, I'm still alive and it's been fantastic.”

Knows Years Has Beens Stills Alive Fantastic

Author:Graham Nash

“When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.”

Wells States Helping Past Spirit Community Fire Alive Response Generosity Fallen Rough Compassionate Proven Rough Times Eagerness Texan Community Spirit

Author:Randy Neugebauer

“I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.”

Thinking Want Feels Sometimes Alive Like You Quiet Quitting After Death Very Deep Life After Death Thinking About Life

Author:David Ortiz

“We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be challenged - to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn't an easy way, but it's a rewarding way.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Feels Easy Path Alive Periods Immortal Finite Easy Way

Author:Frank Ocean

“I rolled my eyes in aggravation and glared at the ceiling, hating what I had to confess. Lend knew how much it affected me, taking souls, and I always felt guilty and dirty, like he was judging me even though he tried not to. The faerie came after me when Reth was down and I sucked out some of her soul.Good.I-Good?Yes. Good.I shuddered. You don't have the creepy, ice thing in you. It's not good.You here, safe and alive? Good.I smiled sadly and knocked on the wall three times. I-knock-love-knock-you-knock.He knocked three times back.”

Soul Eye Hate Three Felt Alive Judging Wall Safe Down And Guilty Ice Dirty Affected Three Times Ceilings Creepy Aggravation Faerie Judge Me

Author:Kiersten White

“Lend sat up,craning his neck to see down my shirt,which I hurriedly pushed back into place. Last time I checked, you couldn't see souls.He shrugged,an exaggerated look of innocence on his face. Still,it wouldn't hurt for me to try,would it?You have got to be the most sefless boyfriend alive.Like I said,anything worthwhile is worth making sacrifices for.Speaking of which,weren't you going to give me a tongue demonstration?”

Giving Trying Looks Said Stills Soul Lasts Faces Hurt Alive Sacrifice Give Me Tongue Innocence Shirts Sat Necks Worthwhile Last Time Demonstration Exaggerated Making Sacrifices

Author:Kiersten White

“When you get up and say, "God, I want to thank you for being alive, I've got family, I've got my health," you're going to draw in more of the good things from God.”

Want God Alive Draws Good Things Get Up

Author:Joel Osteen

“Whether many people realize it yet or not, man, the Inferior Animal, has by now proved himself incapable of keeping his own species - and others - alive for very much longer. So the earth has begun its own plan to set things right.”

People Men Earth Realizing Animal Alive Plans Species Inferiors Incapable

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“The highest development was in the Egyptian and Cabalistic systems, and it was blended with Christian thought in the schools of the Neo-Platonists and the Gnostics...Its studies were only kept alive during the Dark Ages among the Jews who were the chief exponents of its Cabalistic aspect...and it is still alive today.”

Stills Age Today School Christian Dark Study Alive Development Highest Aspect Jew Chiefs Dark Ages Live For Today Egyptian Exponents

Author:Dion Fortune

“I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.”

Wells Stills Action Memories Alive Grew Type Grew Up Racism South Painful Sexism Homophobia Words And Actions

Author:Pauley Perrette

“It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.”

Thinking Stills I Can Kids Age Certain Left Grows Cities Growing Up Alive Chicago Realised

Author:Chance the Rapper

“I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive.”

People Want Long Able Alive I'm Alive

Author:John Raitt

“I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive.”

World Moving Actors Brain Creative Alive Loneliness Boring Believer Cells Inevitable Drought Brain Cells

Author:Nikki Reed

“All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.”

Needs Firsts Book Language Lines Levels Alive Reader Pages Finals

Author:Ali Smith

“A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.”

Years Firsts Play Games Laughing Alive Tears Baby Training My Sister I Smile Smile And Laugh

Author:Ali Smith

“I love anything that involves the ocean. Swimming, snorkelling or surfing are all fun, which distracts from your mind that you are actually doing a workout. Being outdoors in the sun and the salt water is great for freeing your mind and feeling alive.”

Mind Feelings Fun Water Sun Alive Ocean Swimming Salt Workout Surfing Salt Water I Love Swimming

Author:Samantha Stosur

“It's 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It's enough people of substance that it makes you think of the people who aren't there that are alive.”

People Thinking Enough Alive Comedian Substance Make You Think

Author:Bob Saget

“Do I miss football in Scotland? It keeps you really alive, that's for sure. Your heartbeat fluctuates. I'm flatlining at the moment which is actually quite nice but you need to go up and down to stay alive.”

Needs Moments Nice Alive Missing Football Scotland Up And Down Heartbeat Staying Alive

Author:Gordon Strachan

“I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'”

Thinking I Can Moments Alive Things In Life

Author:Juliet Stevenson

“I believe that I possess this value: to serve Jesus. I am less at peace than if my goal would be to attain a professorship and a good life, but I live. And that gives me the tremendous feeling of happiness, as if one would hear music. One feels uprooted, because one asks, what lies ahead, what decisions should I make-but more alive, happier than those anchored in life. To drift with released anchor.”

Ifs Giving Feels Should Believe Feelings Would Be Lying Values Asks Jesus I Believe Goal Decision Christianity Alive Give Me Good Life Should I Anchors Professorship

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“There are endless planes of attention, endless realities and endless mind states. They're like collections of atoms and protons and neutrons, nuclei. They just go on forever. They're plasma, they're fluid ... they're alive.”

World Mind States Reality Attention Forever Alive Buddhism Goes On Endless Planes Collections Atoms Fluid Other Worlds Nucleus Neutrons Plasma Proton

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's important to be alive in those moment, especially when you're doing something you love to do.”

Important Moments Alive Something You Love

Author:Jenifer Lewis

“There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.”

People World Actors Alive Movie Good People Filmmaking

Author:Josh Lucas

“Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.”

Giving Feels Stories Able Moving Alive Give Me Lifetime Best Things

Author:Michael Sheen

“One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.”

Years Alive Ten Hundred

Book:Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man

Source: Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man

“Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.”

Book Real Character Alive Reader Direct Connections Dialogue

Author:Laini Taylor

“With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive.”

Hard Stories Alive Drama Family Drama

Author:Emily VanCamp

“I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.”

Feels Trying I Can Alive My Friends Aim Representation Really Great Cartoonist

Author:Chris Ware

“I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Firsts Made Care Evil Alive Media Perception Music Is Interviews Trickery Necessary Evil

Author:Jack White

“My nana was always a widow as long as I was alive; my grandfather died before I was born. All the women on my street - there were four houses in a row with all old women who lived alone who were widowed. They all had kids, but they were all widowed. My mom didn't put me in preschool; I didn't know that was a thing. I just hung out with these women all day.”

Knows Long Kids House Born Four Alive Streets Mom Died My Mom Grandfather Hung My Grandfather Widows Old Woman Father Died Preschool Widowed Grandfather Died

Author:Jen Kirkman

“We can't help everybody. You can't keep everyone alive.”

Alive

Author:Barry O'Sullivan

“Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.”

Source: Lectures on Calvinism

“Life is beautiful all of the time. Just to be alive and perceive that beauty of life all around you and within you is the best that there is.”

Inspirational Beautiful Life Is Alive Buddhism Perceive Within You Beauty Of Life Life Is Beautiful

Author:Frederick Lenz

“OK, you're alive. How aware are you, of anything? Can you see eternity? Do you live in the land of the perpetually happy?”

Inspirational Alive Land Buddhism Eternity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We are alive for a certain period of time in any given lifetime. We are competing against time. It is a race to see if we can wake up before we go to sleep again. That is the challenge.”

Ifs Inspirational Certain Given Challenges Sleep Race Alive Buddhism Periods Wake Up Lifetime Competing Going To Sleep

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.”

Use Reality Meditation Alive Buddhism Symbols Abstraction Hyphens

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A certain amount of the kundalini is always floating through the ida and the pingala. These two little nerve tubes, on either side of the shushumna, keep us alive.”

Littles Two Certain Sides Alive Buddhism Amount Nerves Floating Tubes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.”

Thinking Men Writing Book Character Stories Action Hate Turns Novel Alive Pages Understood Hundred Skins I Hate Twenties Agree Thirty Shed Snakes I Am Alive

Author:Kenneth Patchen

“A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference.”

Knows Men Looks May Christian Differences Church Lord Alive Sight Christian Inspirational God Knows Dead Man Lord God Morticians

Author:Vance Havner

“Birds and the people who love freedom have something common: They must fly freely to feel that they are alive!”

People Feels Common Alive Bird Love Freedom

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I had to do what I had to do to keep my family alive. Period.”

Alive Periods My Family

Author:Art Modell

“One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.”

Knows Way Children Doe Artist Literature Wonder Know How Alive Poet Blessed Sense Of Wonder

Author:Ella Maillart

“Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it.”

Wells Stills Fun Brain Records Alive Century Intense Having Fun Pace 21st Century Vintage I Am Alive

Author:Tony Visconti

“I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.”

Done Helping Alive Lucky Staying Alive

Author:Felix Baumgartner

“Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.”

Long Alive Ugly

Author:Coco Chanel

“I'm on my boat, training, rehearsing; I spend all my energy on the job that's coming up, and I found that's the way that works for me. The more energy you have on set, the better you'll be; it's all about being alive in that moment and listening.”

Way Moments Jobs Found Energy Alive Listening Training Boat That Moment Rehearsing

Author:Rory McCann

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