Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.

— Roman Payne

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore. Starting the day like a job we hate. Beginning it like swallowing ten tablespoons of devil made cough syrup. Because, somehow, along the way, we forget that being alive and healthy and happy are noble goals – or just good ideas. And that the opposite of being alive is being dead. What a choice.

— Carew Papritz

The greatest treasure is the act of being alive.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The highest level of success every moment is ‘being alive

— Harrish Sairaman

There was no better way to live, or worse. It was all terrible, and you had to do it constantly,

— Alexandra Kleeman

To have no desire is such a load of bullshit--forgive me for being so blunt. To have no passion in one's life is a cop-out for cowards.

— Irina Kovalyova

Wake up. If your eyes are sleeping then wipe them gently. You need to be awake for this. It is a matter of life and death. Wake up! If your mind is sleeping then shake it quickly. You need to be awake for this. It is a matter of life and death. Wake up, I said! If your heart is sleeping then beat your chest! You need to be awake for life! You need to be awake for love! It is a matter of living and being alive.

— Kamand Kojouri

Whenever you are angry, take a beautiful object in your house and smash it to pieces. The pity you feel for what you have done is silly compared to what you are doing to your mind: taking a sacred moment to be alive and desecrating it by being angry.

— Kamand Kojouri

When you are born as a man, you live as a man. When you were born as a woman however, you have two choices; to live like a slave, or as a woman. I love the fact that I was born as a woman because I got to make my choices. Who did you choose to be?

— Shahla Khan

You aren't alive if you aren't in need.

— Henry Cloud