"When you feel pain, you know that you are still alive."
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"Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned."
"Remember, life is just a game and no one gets out alive"
"Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?"
"It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive."
"It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free."
"I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive."
"Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery."
"The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive."
"Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive."
"I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though."
"Stay alive, stay active, and get as much practice as you can."
"I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else."
"Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important, that I matter!!"
"We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed."
"Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out."
"Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive."
"It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other."
"My motto is: I'm alive, so that means I can do anything."
"We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling."