Aliveness Quotes

“COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT

I was born the day
I thought:
What is?
What was?
And
What if?

I was transformed the day
My ego shattered,
And all the superficial, material
Things that mattered
To me before,
Suddenly ceased
To matter.

I really came into being
The day I no longer cared about
What the world thought of me,
Only on my thoughts for
Changing the world.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words

“I am still alive.”
― Suman Pokhrel, The Songs We Share

“Choose thoughts that give you the emotions of being alive and excited about life.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Most people would assume Gideon was a pessimist because hello, look at the obvious (everything fucking sucked) but actually he wasn’t, because he enjoyed being alive. He loved being awake. He missed being awake.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox

“It all happened. It wasn't a dream.
And I'm still alive.
I guess that's something.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“It grows because it is alive.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Binti: The Complete Trilogy

“Having the desire for MORENESS doesn’t mean you’re ungrateful for what you already have, but it simply means that you realize and acknowledge that your soul was designed with the ability to continuously birth new desires.”
― Lebo Grand

“A step back doesn’t stop a man meant to move a kilometre”
― Daniel Derrick Mwesigye, Divine alchemy : The Sacred Refining of a Human Life

“Being allowed and encouraged to experience joy, pleasure and aliveness builds our capacity to be sensual.”
― Lebo Grand

“The magic of being alive first happens when we learn how to dream.”
― Lebo Grand

“Thrive where you are and you will reach at a destination where thriving will become life.”
― Hiral Nagda

“You were designed for MORENESS. Your desire for MORENESS is essentially the key to unlocking your ultimate sense of aliveness and adventure.”
― Lebo Grand

“Your desire for MORENESS is essentially the key to unlocking your ultimate sense of aliveness and adventure.”
― Lebo Grand

“God wants you to be sensual because He can express Himself better through you if you have an insatiable appetite for MORENESS.

You see, being less of the woman He designed you to be ain’t giving Him glory. It ain’t turning Him On. I like the ‘turning Him On’ expression; it’s really sensual, not religious.”
― Lebo Grand

“This living organism breathed, could roam around the world, see and be seen, and make any mess it wanted. And here Andrei was, pulsing in a field with another pulse. How miraculous that for a short period, the two of them could focus their eyes, turn their heads, lift their limbs, and run straight into the arms of another person. The living were not rocks or wood, incapable of being affected by chance, but rather forces of momentary magic that could digress and collide with anything it chose. Should a human ever feel bored lying atop their bed, they could change reality and within thirty seconds walk outside and strike up a new conversation with another pulse on the street. The living sound an ancient, sacred, temporary hum that is exclusive to them. Once gone, it can never be retrieved. But if there still, it could do anything.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

“...she loved the first snow of the season, when all the faded browns of the sleeping earth were awakened into a new kind of aliveness, everything coarse made suddenly delicate, everything solid turned lacy and insubstantial. Magic that didn't need words to enact itself year after year.”
― Emma Törzs

“I nod off after a little while. When I open my eyes again, it’s early afternoon and my room is warm. The cicadas are singing, and the wind is still rustling the trees. I stretch and turn over, and my eyes fall on my laptop. It’s been a long time since I have written [...] I walk across the floor, my bare feet feeling the sun-warmed wood under me, and I sit down. [...] I have a new vision, a new structure for the story. I’m ready to write something honest. Soon, the only sound is the clacking of my keyboard, and then that is gone too, and all I can hear are the voices in my head.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“The idea of encroaching mortality isn't a concern — the idea of death as a sort of endgame, something separate, waiting down the line. It doesn't feel like that to me. I guess I feel, day to day, and in a profound way, enmeshed in death, as if it is a clear and present state of being that manifests itself in a sort of vitality.”
― Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

“Being sensual is the ultimate privilege of being alive.”
― Lebo Grand

“In truth we have been so preoccupied with the outer aspects of mythology that we have failed to realize that it is the inner, the subjective, dimension of mythology that is the potent healing place in each individual. The journey, once told, is what we take mythology to be. But the myth came forth spontaneously in a human being before it ever became a story told. And it came forth for the purposes of healing and growing that individual; it was a specific, unique, personal experience."
. . .
By developing an open and direct relationship with our deep imagination, we open ourselves to that wisdom that dwells in aliveness itself. The deep imagination carries within itself the potential of all experience. Not just the experience of this short lifetime that we take to be our own, individually, but the experience of that entire path that aliveness has traversed from the very beginning, from the origin of life itself."
- Eligio Stephen Gallegos, PhD, Into Wholeness: The Path of Deep Imagery”
― Eligio Stephen Gallegos, PhD

“The best philosophy of life is the one that makes you feel alive.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Aliveness is the daily choice to show up fully—in my life, in my own skin, in the present moment, and with my authentic voice. It’s a journey inward, paired with an awareness of my connection to everything around me.”
― Laurie Buchanan

“Art is a way of communicating our feelings about the peculiar and awesome situation of being alive, and as various as those are, so are our ways of telling each story.”
― Molly Bang, Picture This: How Pictures Work

“In yoga,’ said Sarita, ‘the fully alive human being is created on a daily basis by what we eat, how we breathe, how we sleep, how we move, and what we say and don’t say.”
― Stephen Cope, Yoga and the Quest for the True Self

“She was momentarily stunned by the vitality of him - the signs of life in every clench of muscle, every shift that made his bones move under his skin.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“Formula Factor Theory for Fulfillment is a tool of awareness. Once you begin to understand the process, it will come as naturally as putting one foot in front of the other. You will recognize signs of discomfort if your formula is off balance. You will feel less energized, more fatigued, less social, more introverted, less liberated, more stressed, and so forth. When we are doing more of what we love and less of what exhausts us, we feel more fulfilled, capable, alive, and invigorated.”

Excerpt From: Sarah Voldeng. “The Art of an Enlightened Woman.” Apple Books.”
― Sarah Voldeng, The Art of an Enlightened Woman: A Manifesto

“Formula Factor Theory for Fulfillment is a tool of awareness. Once you begin to understand the process, it will come as naturally as putting one foot in front of the other. You will recognize signs of discomfort if your formula is off balance. You will feel less energized, more fatigued, less social, more introverted, less liberated, more stressed, and so forth. When we are doing more of what we love and less of what exhausts us, we feel more fulfilled, capable, alive, and invigorated. ”

Excerpt From: Sarah Voldeng. “The Art of an Enlightened Woman.” Apple Books.”
― Sarah Voldeng, The Art of an Enlightened Woman: A Manifesto

“Life wouldn't come to an end if you were dead, and that is enough reason why you should get fired up now that you are alive.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions

“Values weren’t rules to obey or weights to bear. They were directions to walk, moment by moment, step by step, not toward certainty but toward aliveness.”
― Ronen Dancziger, The Boxmaker’s Apprentice