These alive quotes will inspire you. Alive (of a person, animal, or plant) living, not dead or alert and active; animated.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging alive quotes, alive sayings, and alive proverbs.
Best Alive Quotes
- “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
- “Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.” ~ Horace
- “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
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“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.” ~ Martin Luther
- “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
- “When you know who you truly are, there is an abiding alive sense of peace.
You could call it joy because that’s what joy is: vibrantly alive peace. It is the joy of knowing yourself as the very life essence before life takes on form. That is the joy of Being – of being who you truly are.” ~ Eckhart Tolle - “Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
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“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” ~ Audre Lorde
- “Ask yourself what makes you come alive.” ~ Howard Thurman
- “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive” ~ Howard Thurman
- “You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.” ~ Indira Gandhi
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“The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.” ~ Rajneesh
- “Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun’s shining or not.” ~ Marty Robbins
- “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” ~ Plato
- “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
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“If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
- “Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.” ~ Richard Bach
- “As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.” ~ Ninette de Valois
- “It’s not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we’re alive.” ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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“Trees are worth more alive than dead” ~ Prince
- “When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.” ~ William Barclay
- “We’ve thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.” ~ Paul Bremer
- “I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry… just make me feel alive.” ~ Joey Lauren Adams , Feel alive quotes
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“Night, when words fade and things come alive.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “Books are not men and yet they stay alive.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- “Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.” ~ Joanne Harris
- “The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
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“I’m in a weird band. We’ve done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.” ~ Gene Simmons
- “Pretending that we live doesn’t make us alive.” ~ Serj Tankian
- “When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.” ~ Tennessee Williams
- “Man is a piece of the universe made alive” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.” ~ Carl Jung
- “Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.” ~ Harry Chapin
- “I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” Another “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.” ~ Joseph Campbell
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“I can tell you that God is alive because I talked to him this morning.” ~ Billy Graham
- “Books are not men and yet they are alive.” ~ Stephen Vincent Benet
- “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
- “If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.” ~ Eleanora Duse , Soul alive quotes
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“Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.” ~ Nhat Hanh
- “No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” ~ Agatha Christie , Still alive quotes
- “We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” ~ Thornton Wilder
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“Today you are you! That is truer than true!” ~ Dr. Seuss
- “To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.” ~ Pema Chodron
- “By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. – Albert Schweitzer” ~ Albert Schweitzer
- “Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. Freedom of mind is the proof of one’s existence.” ~ B. R. Ambedkar
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“I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.” ~ Rita Mae Brown
- “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.
- “You’ve got to keep fighting; you’ve got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.” ~ Elia Kazan , Stay alive quotes
- “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
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“Don’t take life too seriously.” ~ RuPaul
- “It’s also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that’s sitting right here right now… with its aches and it pleasures… is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.” ~ Pema Chodron
- “The future belongs to the one most fully alive in the present.” ~ Paul Palnik
- “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!” ~ Dr. Seuss
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“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.” ~ George Washington
- “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” ~ Alan Watts
- “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
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“Curiosity must be kept alive.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?” ~ Thomas Hardy
- “It took me years, but letting go of religion has been the most profound wake up of my life. I feel I now look at the world not as a child, but as an adult. I see what’s bad and it’s really bad. But I also see what is beautiful, what is wonderful. And I feel so deeply appreciative that I am alive. How dare the religious use the term ‘born again.’ That truly describes freethinkers who’ve thrown off the shackles of religion so much better!” ~ Julia Sweeney
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“Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.” ~ E. W. Howe
- “We save the world by being alive ourselves.” ~ Joseph Campbell
- “My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.” ~ Tim Allen
Alive living; having life; not dead.
