"Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive."
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"I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why I'm alive. And all I actually have to offer as a writer is my version of life. Every single thing that has happened to me is mine."
"I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence."
"My fans are incredible. Don't you dare talk bad about me on my Instagram, because my fans will come out and they will eat you 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."
"If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive."
"Life is still as never was, One Seems dead yet still is alive. Man frets for things, things he can buy, All's for sale but not life. Life is there when a friend is there, A friend like you worth more than life."
"When I am truly present, I feel alive, and I want everyone around me to share that feeling so we can make the most of that moment together."
"A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive."
""A name isn't a person." Ga said. "Don't ever remember someone by their name. To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they're always with you because they're a part of you.""
"So, you have to contemplate yourself surrounded by the conditions you wish to produce and know you can attract divine energy to help you. Dormant forces come alive when you put your attention on what you intend to manifest and when you stay connected to your source of well-being, your source of kindness, and your source that excludes no one."
"The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death."
"for never yet Has lover lived, but longed to wive Like them that are no more alive."
"You think this is a trap then?" the Count asked. "I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is why I'm still alive."
"Their toys are alive and can sometimes come to their aid, or get lost and Olie has to find them. They go to other planets. They go to the ice cream planet."
"Only think of my being alive with a reputation!"
"She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive."
"What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be alive? What we call psychosis is sometimes simply realism. But human beings can't live on realism alone."
"A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give."
"I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps."