“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.” BookRealCharacterAliveReaderDirectConnectionsDialogue Author:Laini Taylor
“Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the world. Any philosophy not representing this, not based on the indefinite totality of life, is bound to disappear.” WorldPhilosophySpiritualLife IsAliveEthicsConnectionsProfoundBoundsDisappearRepresentingTotalitySpiritual Connection Author:Albert Schweitzer
“If you're just letting the time pass at your job, it's just dead time and you'll never get it back. If at that job you're learning and you're observing and you're seeing about people and connections, it's suddenly alive time.” PeopleIfsJobsAliveSeeingConnectionsObservingTime Passes Author:Robert Greene
“When I first came up, the whole AIDS epidemic was starting, and the gay community that I experienced from the beginning of my career was mostly - and overwhelmingly - concerned with staying alive. And, also, I felt really aware of the preciousness of life and time. The gay community and people who were HIV-positive were treated so badly, and I was very disturbed by things. But I also saw a lot of love and connection in the gay community at that time.” PeopleFirstsWholeFeltCommunityCareersSawsAliveGayConcernedConnectionsStartingAidsTreatedStayingDisturbedHivEpidemicsStaying AliveLife And TimeGay CommunityHiv PositiveAids Epidemic Author:Madonna Ciccone
“What makes me feel alive is community, connectedness. Certainly family, parenting, relationships, friendship. All the way into colleague relationships and relationship with spirit, relationship with one's own self and inner child, and animals, earth, planet. Fostering and nurturing and really focusing on connection - connection in relationship with other and my own self and God. When I don't feel connected in all those three areas, life is not very good.” WayFeelsChildrenSelfEarthLife IsSpiritThreeCommunityMy OwnAnimalAlivePlanetsAreasConnectionsVery GoodConnectedColleaguesNurturingConnectednessInner ChildRelationships With OthersFostering Author:Alanis Morissette
“The thing that makes me feel most alive would be when I'm hanging out with my family and feeling my connection with them and feeling safe and content in that.” FeelsFeelingsWould BeAliveSafeMy FamilyConnectionsHanging Out Author:Matt Nathanson
“Meeting people in a genuine way and feeling like there is a vital and meaningful connection going on makes me come alive.” PeopleWayFeelingsAliveConnectionsMeetingsMeaningfulGenuineMeaningful Connections Author:Sharon Salzberg
“Real happiness comes from having an unassailable connection to the deep state of unbounded awareness at our core. This state of being is our own inner joy that expresses the exuberance and wonder of being alive at this moment; it is our own self-luminous essence made conscious of itself.” MadeRealSelfStatesMomentsJoyWonderAliveAwarenessConsciousConnectionsEssenceCoreLuminousExuberanceReal Happiness Author:Deepak Chopra
“It’s an important time to be writing about the connections we share with our fellow creatures. It’s a great time to be alive.” WritingImportantAliveShareCreaturesConnectionsFellowsGreat Times Author:Sy Montgomery
“Over the last few days, I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of the connection of all its parts. This does not mean I am finished with life. On the contrary, I feel intensely alive, and I want and hope in the time that remains to deepen my friendships, to say farewell to those I love, to write more, to travel if I have the strength, to achieve new levels of understanding and insight.” IfsWantFeelsWritingMeanDoeHas BeensAbleLastsUnderstandingLevelsAliveAchieveConnectionsRemainsInsightFinishedContraryLandscapeFarewellMy Friendship Author:Oliver $
“Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.” WayFeelingsAliveCarUniqueConnectionsSkins Author:John Green
“I refuse to turn to theology to justify the life or redeem it. There is a question always of the connection to the eternal. I say to myself above all, keep alive your conviction that there are sacred elements in the life in the practice of the life that must be respected. But the conviction in the existence of the sacred does not necessarily imply that you need to believe in a creator, because we are the ones that made the sacred.” NeedsBelieveDoeMadeTurnsExistencePracticeAliveElementsEternalConnectionsSacredRefuseConvictionCreatorTheologyJustify Author:Stanley Kunitz
“If a person cast no shadow at all, he couldn't be alive. His existence became meaningless.Execrating Apophis by destroying his shadow would cut his connection to the mortal world completely. He'd never be able to rise again. I finally understood why he'd been so anxious to burn Setne's scrolls, and he was afraid of this spell. (Carter Kane)” IfsWorldPersonsAbleExistenceCuttingAliveUnderstoodShadowConnectionsCastsMortalsSpellsDestroyingMeaninglessAnxiousCarterCarter Kane Author:Rick Riordan
“That's the difference between family and friends. Family is always there, no matter what, even when it's not right next door. Which means that you'll find a way to keep the connection alive. Especially since you realize how important it is.” WayMeanImportantMatterNextRealizingDifferencesAliveDoorsConnectionsNo Matter WhatFamily And FriendsFamily Friends Book:The Longest Ride Source: The Longest Ride
“Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life into a miracle. We come awake to such a realization when we recognize our connection to a spiritual dimension.” SpiritualTurnsAliveAwarenessPlanetsBecomingOrdinaryConnectionsMiracleAppreciationRealizationAwakeDimensionsOrdinary LifeLife AppreciationSpiritual Dimensions Author:Dan Wakefield