“You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You created the sadness and the fear to fill it.” FeelsHeartFeelingsFearAliveTroubleSadnessKillingEmptiness Author:Yasmin Mogahed
“Your perspective is vital to your happiness. Some, blind to the bountiful opportunities around them, live lives of sadness and despair with brief moments of joy. Be alive to the abundant potential that surrounds you so that you live a life of peace and happiness with periods of challenging growth.” MomentsJoyOpportunityGrowthChallengesAliveSadnessPerspectivePeriodsDespairBlindLive LifeSurroundPeace And HappinessBrief Moments Author:Richard G. Scott
“When we're feeling fully alive, we're able to fully feel love. This doorway also relates to feeling our feelings fully. Not suppressing our feelings of anger, sadness or grief but allowing them to be felt. What's amazing is that when those feelings are felt, they actually dissolve into love.” FeelsFeelingsAbleFeltGriefAliveSadnessRelateAllowingDoorwaysSuppressing Author:Marci Shimoff
“If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death Perhaps the world can teach us as when everything seems dead but later proves to be alive.” IfsWorldSeemsMightMovingUnderstandingSilenceTeachOur LivesAliveSadnessHugeProveThreatening Author:Pablo Neruda
“Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.” ReadingPleasureAliveSadnessPleasure And Happiness Author:Roberto Bolano
“It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.” SaidStillsDoneUniverseAliveSadnessBattleFlagsSad Music Author:Terry Pratchett
“this is one of my absolute favourite quotes its from the evernight series (stargazer) charity to Balthazar You remind me of too much. you remind me of what it felt like to be alive, to think of sunlight as something you could enjoy instead of something you could bare, to breath and have it change you, refresh you, awaken you, instead of just churning on and on some old useless habit that taunts you with what you use to be, to sigh and feel relief, to cry and let your sadness pass, instead of having it all bottled up inside of you forever and ever until you don't know who you are any more.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsUseFeltEnjoyForeverToo MuchAliveSadnessCryHabitAbsolutesBreathsWho You AreSeriesCharityUselessReliefFavouriteSunlightSighTauntingChurningUse To Be Author:Claudia Gray
“I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with such frenzied intensity. Things and people are waiting for me, and doubtless I am waiting for them and desiring them with all my strength and sadness. But, here, I earn the right to be alive by silence and by secrecy. The miracle of not having to talk about oneself.” PeopleLongImportantFacesWaitingSilenceAliveSadnessLong TimeMiracleDrinkingOneselfUnhappyIntensitySecrecyImportant Questions Author:Albert Camus
“EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows and their joys, their victories, their revelations and their obligations alive, for re-celebration and re-dedication another year, another decade, another century, another eon.” YearsHumansUseEarthJoyHumanityHuman BeingsAliveSadnessCenturyVictorySorrowDiscoveryDecadesObligationRevelationsCelebrationDedicationEarth DayAnother Year Author:Margaret Mead
“The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?” ShouldExistenceAliveSadnessContraryVulnerableStaying Alive Author:Montgomery Clift
“I love life... Well yeah, and I'm sad, but at the same time I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like, it makes me feel alive, you know? It makes me feel human. And the only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt somethin' really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good, so I guess what I'm feelin' is like a, beautiful sadness.” IfsKnowsWayFeelsHumansFeelingsBeautifulFeltAliveSadnessYeahLove LifeReally HappyI Love LifeI'm Sad Author:Trey Parker
“Sadness, joy, wonder - all feelings come from a place of grounded strength that comes from trust in yourself. We spend so much time trying to control our feelings out of fear that something may happen, that somebody may not love us, or walk away or die. It's only when you stop living in that fear of what other people might do to you or how they will react, only then are you free to be alive.” PeopleTryingMayFeelingsMightHappensJoyDiesWalksWonderAliveSadnessGroundedTrust Yourself Author:Elisabeth Shue
“It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.” IfsLifeHappensOrderLossWalksNumbersBreakAliveSadnessCryNormalLogicMathematicalSequenceProgressionMathematical Logic Author:Aimee Bender
“There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.” PeopleExistenceAliveSadnessShadowStandingEndureGleam Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“"Only if one loves this earth with unbending passion can one relieve one's sadness," don Juan said. "Warriors are always joyful because their love is unalterable and their beloved, the earth, embraces them and bestows upon them inconceivable gifts. The sadness belongs only to those who hate the very thing that gives shelter to their beings." Don Juan again caressed the ground with tenderness. "This lovely being, which is alive to its last recesses and understands every feeling, soothed me, it cured me of my pains, and finally when I had fully understood my love for it, it taught me freedom."” IfsGivingSaidFeelingsEarthPainLastsHatePassionLove IsAliveSadnessTaughtUnderstoodEmbraceLovelyWarriorBelovedJoyfulTendernessShelterOne LoveRecessDon JuanJuan Author:Carlos Castaneda