You can cry, ain’t no shame in it.

In a game full of liars it turns out that I’m the truth. Some say that rap’s alive. It turns out that I’m the proof.

As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We’re only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be alive. How lucky we all are.

There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves. It might be a very nice self, but you know you can expect no more suprises from it. Whereas, the other kind keep moving, changing… They are fluid. They keep moving forward and making new trysts with life, and the motion of it keeps them young. In my opinion, they are the only people who are still alive. You must be constantly on your guard against congealing.

Why should I and the beauty in me be ruled by the dead? Beauty is alive and everlasting. Languages come and go. They are the dust of the dead.

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Money is something that keeps you alive and healthy and just keeps you focused. It’s the drive. It’s the passion.

The whole Baja California peninsula is an energetic place, and it’s incredibly alive.

Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.

I’m The Loneliest Man Alive, But I Keep On Dancing To Throw ’Em Off

I always did whatever I liked,” she said, “but now I really can do it.

To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you’re surprised? Say you like it? Say it’s just what you wanted? Because it’s yours- because we love you.

Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit

We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.

People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

Throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘here is my thanks to the monster who didn’t succeed in swallowing me alive.

Life is the great art of being alive.

I’m a shooting star leaping through the sky

Like a tiger defying the laws of gravity

It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

I like to help kids, work with kids in detention homes. Don’t tell a kid what’s right and wrong. He knows what’s right and wrong. Find out what his attitude and his aptitude are; try to help him where he wants to go

We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night.

Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking, loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning.

I have tried to keep memory alive… I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

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

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.

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

Books are alive, you see. They’re not dead, they’re alive.

Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.

Trees are worth more alive than dead.

I prefer to stay alive and be criticized than be sympathized.

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

All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.

Journalism largely consists of saying “Lord Jones is Dead” to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

If we are going to win the next war, in my opinion, 50 percent of the time of training should be allotted to night training.

It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I’m home.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is, therefore, part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier than we found it.

In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.

Words are animals, alive with a will of their own.

Put it on airplane mode, so none of those calls come through

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it’s that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

It’s true that I’ve made lots of mistakes but I’ve never tried to bother anyone. I want to stay alive, preferably in peace, without seeing every one of my mistakes in the papers, and on many occasions, even stories that are lies.

For lovers be the folk that be alive.

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it.

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive.

For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.

I have learnt how to live… how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before

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

It has been the best thing that has ever happened in my life.

There’s a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing that you are worthy of being happy. Your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.

There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It’s why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.

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

Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

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

You can find things in the traditional religions which are very benign and decent and wonderful and so on, but I mean, the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon. The God of the Bible – not only did He order His chosen people to carry out literal genocide – I mean, wipe out every Amalekite to the last man, woman, child, and, you know, donkey and so on, because hundreds of years ago they got in your way when you were trying to cross the desert – not only did He do things like that, but, after all, the God of the Bible was ready to destroy every living creature on earth because some humans irritated Him. That’s the story of Noah. I mean, that’s beyond genocide – you don’t know how to describe this creature. Somebody offended Him, and He was going to destroy every living being on earth? And then He was talked into allowing two of each species to stay alive – that’s supposed to be gentle and wonderful.

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

The track is where I feel most alive.

There was once a Charcoal-burner who lived and worked by himself. A Fuller, however, happened to come and settle in the same neighbourhood; and the Charcoal-burner, having made his acquaintance and finding he was.

AN ASS having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on to give them such beautiful voices. They replied, “The dew.” The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a short time died of hunger

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world. By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is

A little stress and adventure is good for you, if nothing else, just to prove you are alive.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world.