“What is magic? In the deepest sense, magic is an experience. It's the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that is itself alive. It is the experience of contact and communication between oneself and something that is profoundly different from oneself: a swallow, a frog, a spider weaving its web.” WorldDifferentAliveMagicCommunicationFindingsOneselfContactSpidersFrogsWeavingFinding Oneself Author:David Abram
“In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate.” YearsImportantMatterProcessInterestSupportLearningPiecesAliveChildhoodMiddleSubjectsParticularSkillsFindingsTechniqueRelatedGlowingSubject Matter Author:Dorothy H Cohen
“The story of survival is a nice metaphor for our experience making this movie, finding your inner strength and powering through and getting to the endpoint alive.” StoriesNiceAliveFindingsSurvivalMetaphorInner Strength Author:Katie Aselton
“Well to me growing, up I've had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother was killed by a drunk driver, then two months later my father drowned. He was out with his friends drinking and on medication for depression, and he didn't come out of the water alive. Growing up with sexual abuse and having to be in gangs and dealing with my own trauma; finding the cultural identity when I was 16, and learning those traditional ways saved me from hurting myself.” WayWellsTwoWarAgeYoungMotherFatherParentWaterHurtMy OwnGrowing UpAliveGrowingDyingIdentityMonthsFindingsAbuseDrinkingTraumaSavedTraditionalPsychologicalDrunkDriversGangYoung AgeMedicationTwo MonthsCultural IdentityDrinking With FriendsHurting Myself Author:Adam Beach
“We will never become holy by criticizing others, nor is anyone brought nearer to God through finding fault... Find God, and once you have Him, determine to live the rest of your life in pursuit of His glory. As you touch Him, something will come alive in you: something eternal, someone Almighty! Instead of looking down on people, you will seek to lift them up.” PeopleAliveHolyFindingsEternalGloryFaultsDeterminePursuitLiftsCriticizeAlmightyRest Of Your LifeLooking DownCriticizing Others Author:Francis Frangipane
“I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.” FeelsBookMatterReasonEnoughMightAliveFindingsNo Matter WhatGratefulHonoredGreat BookKnackFunny Book Book:Timequake Source: Timequake
“The band has decided to give him and his wife a much needed break from the road to start a life and have a proper honeymoon and do all the things a newlywed couple should do. I'm very proud to announce my brother's recent marriage. Watching him grow up into a man and finding love makes me the happiest brother alive. I know this is upsetting news, as it is for us, but we will continues to tour with a temporary replacement until he has situated himself in his new life.” KnowsMenLoveGivingShouldAgeGrowsBreakGrowing UpAliveWifeBrotherProudCoupleNeededBandFindingsNewsDecidedUpsetMy BrotherTemporaryNew LifeFinding LoveReplacementsHoneymoonNewlyweds Author:Gerard Way
“Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into that bright delivery-room light, nothing had been right. Nothing had been as comfortable or felt so good. Just the effort it took to keep your stupid physical body alive, just finding food and cooking it and dishwashing, the keeping warm and bathing and sleeping, the walking and bowel movements and ingrown hairs, it was all getting to be too much work.” PeopleBodyLightFeltBornSleepRoomsEffortToo MuchAliveStupidMovementHairWalkingComfortableFindingsCookingWarmDeliveryPhysical BodyBathingToo Much WorkYour StupidBowel MovementsDelivery Room Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“For almost ninety years I’ve walked among my kind, and yours… all the time thinking I was complete in myself, not realizing what I was seeking. And not finding anything, because you weren’t alive yet.” ThinkingYearsKindRealizingAliveFindingsSeekingTwilightNinetyTwilight EdwardTwilight Series Author:Stephenie Meyer
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” HumansLyingExistenceAliveMysteryFindingsStayingHuman ExistenceCriminal MindStaying AliveLive With Purpose Book:The Brothers Karamazov Source: The Brothers Karamazov