Alive Quotes - Page 15

• It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.

  Mick Rock

  Miracle, Live For Today, Reeds

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• Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

  Zig Ziglar

  Math, Important, Done

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Oct 05, 2014

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• When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the narrating inner life. To be alone in the presence of one's thought is not a value, only a common practice.

  Vivian Gornick

  Writing, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• We forgive, if we are wise, not for the other person, but for ourselves. We forgive, not to erase a wrong, but to relieve the residue of the wrong that is alive within us. We forgive because it is less painful than holding on to resentment. We forgive because without it we condemn ourselves to repeating endlessly the very trauma or situation that hurt us so. We forgive because ultimately it is the smartest action to take on our own behalf. We forgive because it restores to us a sense of inner balance.

  Tian Dayton

  Forgiveness, Wise, Hurt

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• Boswell's Johnson is the word made flesh... an extemporaneous man talking himself into the thick of every occasion (in a world ofoccasions if nothing else) and therefore no monument at all but all that can be saved of a man alive in the pages of a book.

  Marvin Mudrick

  Book, Men, Talking

  Marvin Mudrick (1979). “Books are Not Life, But Then, what Is?”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The universe is expanding, and every second that you're alive, the universe is bigger than it was a second before. There's nothing in front of us, exactly, other than the future, and there's no space for the size, the density of the universe to go. Because it's expanding at every point simultaneously.

  Ariel Pink

  Space, Size, Density

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As soon as we are born, if we could but get up, bath, dress, shave, breakfast once for all, if we could 'cut' these monotonous cycles of routine. If the sun rose it would stay up, or once we were alive we were immortal!

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Cutting, Rose, Dresses

  W. N. P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”, p.175, Penguin UK

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• There is no more foul or relentless enemy of man in the occult world than this dead-alive creature spewed up from the grave.

  Guy Endore

  Men, Enemy, World

  "Fictional character: Professor Zelin". "Mark of the Vampire", www.imdb.com. 1935.

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• It is the first day because it has never been before and the last day because it will never be again. Be alive, if you can, all through this day - today - of your life. What's to be done? What's to be done? Follow your feet. Put on the coffee. Start the orange juice, the bacon, the toast. Then go wake up your children and your spouse. Think about the work of your hands. Live in the needs of the day.

  Frederick Buechner

  Children, Coffee, Thinking

  Frederick Buechner (1970). “The alphabet of grace”

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• The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly Just think of Rodin, how he dealt with people of all ages. I have the feeling that I'm alive, I have a body I can make it extremely interesting. That keeps me alive and vital. It's a kind of process of energizing myself by my belief that the classical tradition of art that we've inherited from the Greeks is a load of bullshit.

  John Coplans

  Art, Thinking, Views

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• 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.

  Aaron Gillespie

  Mom, Morning, Hate

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• We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fighting, Expectations, Victory

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Essays Ancient and Modern”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One doesn't have to pursue unhappiness. It comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Thinking, World, Kind

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• For me, haute couture is a necessity. I never would have done this job were it not for haute couture. It is a comfort, a security. I almost feel it is our duty to continue. Haute couture is France. We have to keep all the skills and craftmanship alive.

  Christian Lacroix

  Jobs, Skills, Comfort

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• Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.

  Maxine Greene

  Thinking, Consciousness, Awareness

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• Once you lose attachment to how you want things to be because you realize you don't control anything, there's a curiously liberating aspect of that. I've always been a control freak, I've always felt that if I try hard enough, everyone I love will be kept safe and everything will be okay. Being shown, in such brutal terms, that that's simply not the way it works, in someways, it messed me up.  I've been through hell, but on another level, if you pile up so much tragedy, it either destroys you, or you just start laughing about it. Because at the end of the day, no one gets out alive.

  Daniele Bolelli

  Attachment, Laughing, Trying

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• Your spirit is the duster of any spider web. Behind every finish line, there is a start one. Behind every success, there is another challenge. While you are alive, be alive. If you miss what you once did, do it again. Don't live in yellow photos... Continue although everyone expects you to give up. Don't let oxide the iron that is inside you. Do that instead of pity, and they will respect you. When because of years you cannot run, jog. When you cannot jog, walk. When you cannot walk, use a cane. But never stop!

  Mother Teresa

  Running, Giving Up, Years

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• In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because it is symmetrical and fair. Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.118, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,--equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare would only be enhanced by the most thrilling and affecting events. I have found it so. And so much the more, as they are not intended for consolation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1633, Delphi Classics

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• But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Moving, Roots

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

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• In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody. But through every clause and part of speech of the right book I meet the eyes of the most determined men; his force and terror inundate every word: the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Writing, Eye

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• Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive.

  Mason Cooley

  Wall, Water, Building

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• The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Rocks, Moss, Rolling

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• The wind and the rain, gives this place a gleam that just isn't natural. And the ground, alive with crawling things, crawling death.

  Ed Wood

  Nature, Rain, Wind

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• The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Secret, Journalism, Moments

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