Alive Quotes

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard

Life, Seriously

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Christian, Prayer, Possible

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus Aurelius

Love, Morning, Enjoy

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

Today, True, Truer

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Action, Bring, Tension

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates

Nothing, Wisest

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Men, Rather

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach

Find, Here, Earth

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Edward Moore

Men, Art, Alone

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Wish, Spirit

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.
Dalai Lama

Long, Between, Committed

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell

Life, Experience, Looking

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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
George Washington

Fire, Keep, Conscience

There's place and means for every man alive.
William Shakespeare

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, Reason, Whatever

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
Joseph Campbell

Life, Whatever, Meaning

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion, Makes, Youth

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
Joseph Campbell

Forget, Value, Achieve

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Mel Brooks

Life, Death, Around

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Die, Times, While

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Vincent Van Gogh

Night, Often, Colored

Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.
Marty Robbins

Good, Sun, Whether

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
Audre Lorde

Define, Eaten, Fantasies

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
Elbert Hubbard

God, Sure, Sign

I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.
Michael Jackson

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Death, Live, Spiritual

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
Madeleine L'Engle

Children, Accept, Used

I'm not the healthiest, but I am healthy. I'm healthy to the point where there are things that I have to eat that I don't want to eat, but I eat it because I'm enjoying staying alive.
Bill Cosby

Point, Healthy, Eat

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
e. e. cummings

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
Oprah Winfrey

Person, Whole, Point

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