Happy To Be Alive Quotes

• I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.

  Michael Jackson

  Who I Am, Alive

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• When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You can't fake passion. It is the fuel that drives any dream and makes you happy to be alive.

  Mac Anderson

  Dream, Passion, Fake

  Linda Ellis, Mac Anderson (2012). “The Dash: Making a Difference with Your Life from Beginning to End”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.2, New Directions Publishing

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• Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Happy Birthday to You!". Book by Dr. Seuss, 1959.

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• I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

  E. B. White

  Life, Good Morning, Time

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.148, Cornell University Press

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• Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

  William Saroyan

  Soon Enough, Trying, Alive

  William Saroyan (1934). “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

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• After you have a kid you're just so happy to be alive!

  Madeleine Stowe

  Kids, Alive

  "Stowe Away". SPLICEDwire Interview, June 14, 1999.

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• I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art and culture, because then you feel like everything good already happened. I really just try to be in the present with music and just find the things that are invigorating and make me feel happy to be alive right now.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Art, Thinking, Views

  "'Portlandia' Duo Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein Discuss the Secrets to the Cult Show's Success". Interview with Marlow Stern, www.thedailybeast.com. February 27, 2014.

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• I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have these things where you are. If you have them, what does the real world matter anyway?

  John Frusciante

  Fun, Real, Book

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• On the whole I woke up in the morning and was happy to be alive.

  Art Buchwald

  Morning, Alive, Whole

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• When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

  Lana Del Rey

  Race, Feelings, Different

  "Lana Del Rey: Can She Live?". www.complex.com. January 24, 2012.

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• It seems the height of antiquated hubris to claim that the universe carried on as it did for billions of years in order to form a comfortable abode for us. Chance and historical contingency give the world of life most of its glory and fascination. I sit here happy to be alive and sure that some reason must exist for "why me?" Or the earth might have been totally covered with water, and an octopus might now be telling its children why the eight-legged God of all things had made such a perfect world for cephalopods.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Children, Octopus, Eight

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas”, p.206, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Between the postwar fifties - domesticity, people happy to be alive after the Second World War, wanting to build a home, make a family, make a nest. Women were pushed back into the home after having been active in the Second World War. It was a big Doris Day moment for women, which didn't suit all women.

  Sally Potter

  War, Home, People

  "TIFF: Interview with Sally Potter – Writer and Director of Ginger and Rosa". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. September 13, 2012.

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• My political position is that I'm happy to be alive and in North America.

  David Letterman

  America, Political, Alive

  "New Again: David Letterman". Interview with Pat Hackett and Kenzi Abou-Sabe, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 9, 2014.

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• I'm turning left. Look, everyone, my blinker is on, and I'm turning left. I am so happy to be alive, driving along, making a left turn. I'm serious. I am doing exactly what I want to be doing at this moment: existing on a Tuesday, going about my business, on my way somewhere, turning left.

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal

  Tuesday, Looks, Alive

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal (2007). “Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life”, p.150, Broadway Books

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• It was autumn, the springtime of death. Rain spattered the rotting leaves, and a wild wind wailed. Death was singing in the shower. Death was happy to be alive. The fetus bailed out without a parachute. It landed in the sideline Astroturf, so upsetting the cheerleaders that for the remained of the afternoon their rahs were more like squeaks.

  Tom Robbins

  Rain, Autumn, Wind

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• There's nothing like a headstrong woman to make you happy to be alive.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Alive, Make You Happy, Headstrong

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• Today you are you! That is truer than true!

  Dr. Seuss

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Monday

  "Happy Birthday to You!". Book by Dr. Seuss, 1959.

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• We were so happy to be alive. There was a motel there pretty close. We had a big cup of coffee. Everybody had a room to themselves. But nobody wanted to go to bed. Everybody wanted to stay up and drink coffee and have doughnuts. We had made it. The weather was perfect when we woke up the next morning.

  Rod Hundley

  Morning, Coffee, Weather

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• Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Home, South Carolina

  FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Jun 22, 2010

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• Tomorrow, I am fifty-two years old. And I want to say unequivocally that I am very happy to be alive, that being alive is better than being dead. And if I have just one wish it is this: that you work with all your might and love with all your heart and never lose hope and never give up.

  Betsy Lerner

  Giving Up, Heart, Years

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• Some performers are brilliant comedians, some are genius musicians, and some just make you happy to be alive. THE BOBS are all of that - and then some.

  Paul Provenza

  Comedian, Genius, Alive

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