Appreciate Being Alive Quotes

#1. I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. You have to take a little time to appreciate being alive and breathing instead of wondering what you have to do next all the time. You have to stop and do nothing for a little while every day.

Roland Merullo

#3. I wouldn't say that cutting was pleasurable, but there is a sense of euphoria that follows cutting yourself. The quick pinch of pain and the sight of blood snaps you back to the surface and you start to appreciate being alive.

Shirley Manson

#4. A plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive, at least a little bit ...

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

Dan Savage

#6. But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

Alan Paton

#7. Where other women ... were lovely, Annie Gamache was alive.
Late, too late, Jean Guy Beauvoir had come to appreciate how very important it was, how very attractive it was, how very rare it was, to be fully alive.

Louise Penny

#8. No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end
of the straightaway in high gear. Too much power is never enough ...

Mark Donohue

#9. Patience is the mother of all virtues and the godmother of madness

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#10. I suppose I'm worried that someday there will be some exciting experiments to do, and there won't be anyone around who knows what experiments are.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

#11. Imported actors, like certain wines, sometimes do not stand the ocean trip. This can be as true of American actors in Europe as it is of European actors in America.

Edna Ferber

#12. I prayed to Woden for forgiveness, but I think he felt no ill will for me. We are but men. He has done worse.

Alaric Longward

#13. We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

Bob Graham

#14. You have to walk in the other guy's moccasins. You have to think what they think. If you want to bring somebody onto your side, you have to figure out what motivates them. What do they need?

Chuck Schumer

#15. Valley's don't last forever ... Neither did mountaintops of life, but if a person just had faith and held on, each valley would eventually end.

Lawana Blackwell

#16. It's all your Now. Love your now. It can't always be pleasurable, but you can still appreciate the electric awareness of being alive.

Ruben Papian

#17. I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.

Halsey

#18. If you feel uncomfortable about something, just because you're in the public eye, it doesn't mean it doesn't hurt when people say things.

Louise Nurding

#19. Better paranoid then sorry.

James Patterson

#20. I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.

Anthony Minghella