“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?” GivingTryingLooksSaidStillsSoulLastsFacesHurtAliveSacrificeGive MeTongueInnocenceShirtsSatNecksWorthwhileLast TimeDemonstrationExaggeratedMaking Sacrifices Author:Kiersten White
“See yourself being a master of gratitude in the future. Mentally picture how this will help you feel joy the moment you are awake and are grateful for being alive. See how you can be grateful and happy for each breath. Realize that when you master gratitude, you will see a happy face every time you look into the mirror. See how your entire quality of life will be improved. See how other people will tell you that they enjoy being around you because you are such a happy person.” PeopleFeelsLooksPersonsMomentsHelpingFacesJoyEnjoyRealizingQualityAliveMastersGratitudeBreathsMirrorsGratefulAwakeBe GratefulQuality Of LifeHappy PersonHappy Face Author:Zelig Pliskin
“A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the propensities of the living - an anomaly on the face of the earth - being very calm, yet breathless.” EarthFacesAliveConsequenceCalmIllInstanceFearfulQualificationsAttendingPropensityBreathlessAnomalies Book:The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Source: The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
“Every real form is a world. And any plastic surface is more alive than a face from which stares a pair of eyes and a smile.” WorldRealEyeFacesFormAliveSurfaceStaringPairsPlastic Author:Kazimir Malevich
“In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive.” IfsBookMightFacesMy OwnIssuesAliveMirrorsRaisesDebateWelcome Author:John Scott
“Cheryl Strayed reminds us, in her lyrical and courageous memoir Wild, of what it means to be fully alive, even in the face of catastrophe, physical and psychic hardship, and loss.” MeanFacesLossAliveMemoirCourageousHardshipCatastrophePsychicsLyrical Author:Mira Bartok
“All of us have problems. We face them every day. How grateful I am that we have difficult things to wrestle with. They keep us young, they keep us alive, they keep us going, they keep us humble. Be grateful for your problems, and know that somehow there will come a solution. Just do the best you can, but be sure it is the very best.” KnowsProblemFacesYoungDifficultAliveSolutionsGratefulHumbleBe GratefulDo The BestDifficult Things Author:Gordon B. Hinckley
“Dinosaurs may be extinct from the face of the planet, but they are alive and well in our imaginations.” WellsMayFacesImaginationAlivePlanetsDinosaurs Author:Steve Miller
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldPainFacesAliveTaughtEmpathyConnectedWoundsWorld HistoryUnprecedentedDickens Author:James A. Baldwin
“The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.” MadeKidsFacesSecretRecordsAliveStreetsRocksBandMachinesPaidGuitarDebtHungryContactRock N RollFlashUnseenBladesHustleHunted Author:Bruce Springsteen
“Theism, as a way of conceiving God, has become demonstrably inadequate, and the God of theism not only is dying but is probably not revivable. If the religion of the future depends on keeping alive the definitions of theism, then the human phenomenon that we call religion will have come to an end. If Christianity depends on a theistic definition of God, then we must face the fact that we are watching this noble religious system enter the rigor mortis of its own death throes.” IfsWayHumansEndsFactsFacesReligiousChristianityAliveAtheismDyingDependsDefinitionsPositive AtheismNoblePhenomenonInadequateTheismRigorConceivingRigor Mortis Author:John Shelby Spong
“In a pure anonymous encounter you find a world alive and full of character. In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here, in Los Angeles, there are fewer characters because they are all inside automobiles.” PeopleWorldCharacterStoriesFacesSongAliveStreetsNew YorkAdventureThousandPureIncrediblesBlockEncountersLos AngelesFewerAutomobile Author:Joni Mitchell
“You have to do your best to face every moment, because this moment will never come again. The moment that you are living right now is a very important opportunity to make your life vividly alive. If you want to live with spiritual security in the midst of constant change, you have to burn the flame of your life force in everything you do.” IfsWantImportantMomentsFacesSpiritualOpportunityForceChangeAliveSecurityRight NowConstantFlamesMidstLiving RightLiving Right Now Book:Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time Source: Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time
“I war running back to the house in Mayaguez with a melting ice cone we called a piraqua running sweet and sticky down my face and arms, the sun in my eyes, breaking through clouds and glinting off the rain-soaked pavement and dripping leaves. I was running with joy, an overwhelming joy that arose simply from gratitude for the fact of being alive. Along with the image, memory carried these words from a child's mind through time: I am blessed. In this life I am truly blessed.” MindChildrenWarFactsEyeRunningFacesJoyHouseMemoriesSunAliveSweetArmsGratitudeRainBlessedCloudsIceThis LifeOverwhelmingMeltingRough TimesPavementStickyDrippingConesRunning BackMelting Ice Author:Sonia
“The hours must be endured and those who cannot do so in life will most surely do so in death. You say you cannot face them? Life's joys and pains both? You shall find them waiting for you, a world of ignored moments there to be explored. Then shall you know how long an hour can be, shall feel the awful depth and restlessness of even a single day, and all the days you fled from life while you were alive.” KnowsWorldFeelsLongMomentsPainFacesJoyWaitingHoursKnow HowAliveDepthAwfulIgnoredRestlessnessWaiting For YouJoy And Pain Author:Ari Berk
“Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down You had not seen take amber light alive.” LightFacesMotherPerfectAliveSwimmingAmberSwimmerDead Mother Author:Allen Tate
“If you cut yourself, if you hate yourself, if you eat, if you don’t eat. If your parents split up, if your parents hit you, if your mom tells you you’re a piece of trash. If you got in a car crash and half your face is gone - wake up in the morning and give yourself a shot. Do it. Not for music, not for any reason other than the fact that you are alive and you were given the grace to wake up another day. So do it, man. Just freaking get out there and try.” IfsMenGivingTryingReasonFactsFacesHateGivenParentHalfMorningGoneGracePiecesCuttingAliveCarMomShotsWake UpYour FaceSplitsCrashHate YouTrashYour MomAnother DayCar Crash Author:Aaron Gillespie
“Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made of an infinite array of hands and crests that reveal anonymous faces. On a good day, the clouds part to alight on-lo and behold-an island! I step ashore, only find that it too is made of people, mangled bodies somehow still alive. They grab at my feet, pulling me under like quicksand. The last thing I see before suffocating is the sky, a billion eyes staring down, blinking in undulating electric ripples. The cold rain I feel on my cheeks is the tears of the people.” PeopleFeelsMadeStillsBodyHandsEyeLastsFacesStepsAliveSeaFeetSkyTearsColdRainInfiniteCloudsWaveBillionsStaringIslandsSurvivorSoleCheeksElectricPullingGood DayRippleRowingShipwreckSuffocatingQuicksand Author:Richard M. Nixon
“Slavish obedience to the clerics, who know how to squeeze every last drop of advantage out of religion, is killing our girls. We must speak-blaspheme, if necessary; be accused of being apostates, if that is what is required. Muslims are taught that Islam put an end to the Arabian practice of burying alive newborn baby girls because they were considered worthless and a burden, but as long as we stay quiet in the face of the abomination of child marriage, we are effectively burying our girls alive today.” IfsKnowsChildrenLongEndsTodayLastsFacesGirlSpeakPracticeKnow HowAliveTaughtBabyQuietAdvantageIslamKillingBurdenObedienceWorthlessAccusedLive For TodayNewbornBaby GirlAbominationBuryingArabianNewborn Baby Author:Mona Eltahawy
“Neglecting your health is the equivalent to spitting in the face of everyone fighting to stay alive and of those who have lost their fight.” FacesFightingLostAliveHealthNeglectStaying Alive Author:Ingrid Weir
“I was attacked by two dogs when I was three and a half years old. I'm lucky to be alive. My face was stitched back together and here I still am, gratefully so. I believe that experience shocked me into a deep alliance with the animal world, its beauty and viciousness and terror.” WorldYearsBelieveStillsTwoTogetherFacesThreeI BelieveAnimalHalfAliveDogLuckyTerrorShockedAlliancesBack TogetherAnimal WorldHalf A YearTwo DogsLucky To Be Alive Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“In the past, destruction of your neighbour might have been considered a victory, but today we are all interdependent. We live in a global economy; we face problems like climate change that affect us all. The 7 billion human beings alive today belong to one human family. In the context that others' interests are in our interest and our interest is in their interest, the use of force is self-destructive.” HumansHas BeensSelfUseProblemMightTodayPastFacesForceInterestHuman BeingsEconomyAliveVictoryDestructionClimateClimate ChangeBillionsDestructiveBelongingGlobalizationMight Have BeenNeighbourWise Man Once SaidLive For TodaySelf DestructionInterdependenceGlobal EconomySelf DestructiveHuman FamilyUse Of Force Author:Dalai Lama
“If you've got on the one hand death, dogmatism, domination, and on the other you've got desire in the face of death, dialogue in the face of dogmatism, democracy in the face of domination, then philosophy itself becomes a critical disposition of wrestling with desire in the face of death, wrestling with dialogue in the face of dogmatism, and wrestling with democracy, trying to keep alive a very fragile democratic experiment.” IfsTryingPhilosophyHandsFacesDesireDemocracyAliveDemocraticCriticalExperimentsDialogueWrestlingFragileDispositionDominationDogmatism Author:Cornel West
“The writer trusts nothing she writes-it should be too reckless and alive for that, it should be beautiful and menacing and slightly out of control. . . . Good writing . . . explodes in the reader's face. Whenever the writer writes, it's always three or four or five o'clock in the morning in her head.” ShouldWritingBeautifulFacesThreeMorningFiveFourAliveReaderClockRecklessGood Writing Author:Joy Williams
“Anything that provokes a visceral or spiritual response and ignites my senses. Whether it's listening to the ocean, dancing to a song I adore, feeling the wind across my face, sampling a fantastic new dish, or witnessing a phenomenal show, if I experience it before I can even think about it, it makes me come alive.” IfsThinkingI CanShowsFeelingsFacesSpiritualSongAliveWindListeningOceanDancingResponseSensesFantasticDishesProvokingAdorePhenomenalIgniteVisceralSampling Author:Grace Gealey
“Seeing my children makes me come most alive. I come home and I see my kids' faces light up when they see me at the door with my guitar case. They run to me, we hug. I never go beyond a few weeks without being in their presence, so they have adjusted quite well.” WellsChildrenHomeLightRunningKidsFacesCasesAliveSeeingDoorsWeekGuitarMy ChildrenComing HomeHugLight Up Author:Richard Patrick
“There is not a single person alive who could keep a straight face and say "Oh yeah it's healthy, the reason I use drugs and alcohol and booze is because it's healthy!"” PersonsReasonUseFacesAliveHealthyDrugYeahAlcoholDrugs And AlcoholSingle PersonBoozeStraight Face Author:Gene Simmons
“We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live as women and men in the face of this? Why do we let ourselves be so distracted and obsessed by meaningless B.S. in light of having one short, precious life? When are we going to wake up and be fully alive to each other and nature and magic and wonder and Life with a capital L? When will we stop hitting the snooze button? And then, how alive are we willing to be?” MenLightFacesHateDiesWonderAliveMagicWillingMen And WomenI HateWake UpObsessedMeaninglessHittingButtonsAdoreDistractedPrecious LifeSnooze Button Author:Anne Lamott