"I came alive when I started loving you."
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"I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive."
"Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive."
"Superman and Robinhood are still alive in Hollywood."
"The Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma."
"I failed, many times in my life. One failure that I always remember was when my second book was rejected by 36 publishers. Many years later, I watched HuffPost come alive"
"When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole."
"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it."
"Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive."
"It is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you can truly love others. it's only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the hearts of others. when you feel centered and alive, you are in much better position to be a better person."
"American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished."
"I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!"
"And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!"
"We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone knows this. The voyage into the interior is all that matters, Whatever your ride. Sometimes I can't sit still for all the asininities I read. Give me the hummingbird, who has to eat sixty times His own weight a day just to stay alive. Now that's a life on the edge."
"Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant."
"The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive."
"When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature."
"I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all."
"It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless."
"Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected."