Being alive is being a part of a dream and there is no dream outside the life!

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Being alive is having what I want, that is my joy, my happiness.

— Marty Rubin

Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive.

— Amy Neftzger

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)

— Eve Ensler

It felt so amazing to be alive I could never think of anything else.

— Marty Rubin

It is a great miracle that I am alive.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I wish my whispers are heard and requited as a storm... Because, the storm is that keeps me alive!

— Lukhman Pambra

I would have gone to bed with him that night. If he had asked. If he had come and kissed me. Not for his sake, but for being alive's.

— John Fowles

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely same me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a Sea, where mine impotence might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

— John Donne

Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive.

— Sharon Salzberg