Top 100 Fully Alive Quotes
#1. But if you say that you are healthy, dynamic and fully alive, your life will be transformed.
Robin S. Sharma
#2. The ordinary you, the you that has to go to work every morning, the you that has to run a household, pay bills, do all of those things
that you is somehow changed into an exciting, artistic, fully alive you. That's what Paris does.
Alexander McCall Smith
#3. How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)
Stephen Levine
#4. One's best work comes when we are fully alive, happy, and inspired.
Eric Schiffer
#5. Full democracy requires the full participation of women. Your voices are vital. The word 'vital' means necessary for life. A democracy, to be fully alive, must include all its citizens.
Swanee Hunt
#6. If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe # running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life,
Haruki Murakami
#7. The glory of God is man fully alive. (Saint Irenaeus)
John Eldredge
#8. A fruit is not afraid of its own weight. It grows into its skin fully. It is whole, each part of its body equally alive.
Gayle Brandeis
#9. Cheryl Strayed reminds us, in her lyrical and courageous memoir Wild, of what it means to be fully alive, even in the face of catastrophe, physical and psychic hardship, and loss.
Mira Bartok
#10. Being fully present isn't something that happens once and then you have achieved it; it's being awake to the ebb and flow and movement and creation of life, being alive to the process of life itself.
Pema Chodron
#11. Spiritual process is not for the dead or the dying; it is for the living who want to become fully alive in all dimensions of life.
Jaggi Vasudev
#12. I'm not scared of death, just tired. So fucking tired of being alive yet never fully breathing.
Jessica Sorensen
#13. To be fully alive, you need time with God to recharge.
Craig Groeschel
#14. It's very helpful to realize that being here, sitting in meditation, doing simple everyday things like working, walking outside, talking with people, bathing, using the toilet, and eating, is actually all that we need to be fully awake, fully alive, fully human.
Pema Chodron
#15. We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43)
Stephen Levine
#16. The opposite of depression isn't feeling happy but being fully alive, however painful
Gwyneth Lewis
#17. Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.
Wayne W. Dyer
#18. In twenty years' time I'll be eighty-three, just an old man with a stick moving like a sloth bear. While I'm alive, I am fully committed to autonomy, and I am the person who can persuade the Tibetan people to accept it.
Dalai Lama
#20. She was approaching the hardest moment to be faced when separated from the one you love, the moment when you finally get used to your pain, and then, you are only half alive, because that pain meant you were still fully alive. It was a bleeding, gasping kind of life.
Irene Nemirovsky
#21. She will speculate that she didn't fully know her husband - this will give her leverage to seek him, to come to know him. It will keep her husband "alive" in her memory - elusive, teasing.
Joyce Carol Oates
#22. I love being on stage. There's nothing better than that feeling; ever since the first time I was on stage, I was like, 'Oh, this is what it means to be fully alive and satisfied.' I don't think anything's as satisfying as a play.
Mickey Sumner
#23. Are you a stingy breather? Well, don't be. Be extravagant with you breathing and come fully alive.
Ron Fletcher
#25. The glory of God is a man fully alive, and the life of a man consists in beholding God.
Charles R. Swindoll
#26. To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
Eric Hoffer
#27. She said, 'He knows what I mean. Where did you get those shoes?' He said, 'They're training shoes.' She said, 'Training for what? Are you not fully qualified?' He said, 'If Jesus were alive today, Mrs Whittaker, I think you'd find these were the type of shoes he would be wearing.
Alan Bennett
#28. I often wonder how we can make the more fortunate in this country fully aware of the fact that the problem of the unemployed is not a mechanical one. It is a problem alive and throbbing with human pain.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#29. 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
#30. Words will never fully capture what is alive in our hearts.
It would be a shame, though, if we denied our bears their dancing.
Dinty W. Moore
#31. Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#32. You just have to determine to settle for nothing less than being FULLY ALIVE, to show up, be who you are, and share your gifts.
Gabrielle Roth
#33. We are only fully alive when we're helping others
Rick Warren
#34. To be creative is only to have health: to keep oneself fully alive in the Creation, to keep the Creation fully alive in oneself, to see the Creation anew, to welcome one's part in it anew.
Wendell Berry
#35. We have to learn to die in every moment in order to be fully alive.
Nhat Hanh
#36. [Uncentering the Earth] itself is uncentering in the best possible way. Vollmann is one of the deepest, most fully ensouled writers alive.
David Foster Wallace
#37. I think the great livers, the people who are fully self-actualizing and alive, are the great givers.
Mark Victor Hansen
#38. Adventure should be part of everyone's life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.
Holly Morris
#39. Being deeply aware of fragility and ecstasy seems to me an essential part of being alive and living fully - and there's no way for me to separate this from my poems.
Alex Lemon
#40. Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.
Nhat Hanh
#41. What makes me fully alive is anything. Really just being alive is enough.
Robert Thurman
#42. It was simply that she was only fully alive when she devoted herself to her singular ability to draw, and when she drew she was naturally always alone.
Tove Jansson
#43. I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.
Madeleine L'Engle
#44. Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.
Mark Buchanan
#45. Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a doorway opening onto greater depth of understanding, actions that will take us into being more fully alive.
Peter Block
#46. Whatever those things are that make you feel fully alive and like the universe is ultimately a good place and you are not alone, I need a faith that doesn't deny these moments but embraces them.
Rob Bell
#47. Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.
Philip Yancey
#48. No one understands me better and no one can make me laugh the way Bill does. Even after all these years, he is still the most interesting, energizing and fully alive person I have ever met.
Hillary Clinton
#49. The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it.
Helen Dunmore
#50. 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.
Anne Lamott
#51. Fully alive and deeply committed is a risky business.
Steven Kotler
#52. To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am.
Dawna Markova
#53. Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.
Brooks Atkinson
#54. Spiritual security means you are fully alive and comfortable in your life as it is, without expecting anything.
Dainin Katagiri
#55. only the failure to strategically control the contents of your consciousness keeps you from feeling the consistent internal charge of being fully alive, engaged, connected and fulfilled
Brendon Burchard
#56. We must purposefully create a life of gratitude if we want to be fully alive.
Chris Guillebeau
#57. The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter that has been fully formed and pushed aside, but absolutely present and alive. I understand this. Nonetheless, I sometimes find it hard to bear.
Bernhard Schlink
#58. It takes courage to say, "I need help" and to be vulnerable and accept advice from people who may be wiser than you are. It takes courage to die to ourselves so we can become fully alive in a love and hope and freedom that only come when we do push our pride away.
Anne Jackson
#59. Realize that the winner in life is not the one that accomplishes most; it's the person who enjoys their life fully that's most alive.
Jonathan Mead
#60. Irenaeus, very disciple of the apostle John, wrote: "The glory of God is the human being fully alive and the life of the human consists in beholding God" (emphasis added).
Ann Voskamp
#61. The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.
Allen Ginsberg
#62. To live either fully alive ... or in empty nothingness? It's the in between that drives us mad.
Ann Voskamp
#63. Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.
Uesugi Kenshin
#64. For it is indeed consciousness that makes the body fully alive, and the body that gives consciousness a place to live.
Anodea Judith
#65. If I have learned anything in long years of introspection, it is that life requires a price if you want to be as fully alive as you can be. You need courage to pursue the truth of your life and yourself.
Eda LeShan
#66. Mphhh ... What did you say Tyler?' Anna-Louise mumbles on the bed above me.
I stand up, and a tame blue bird lands on my shoulder and tries to nibble my earlobe. I gently shake Anna-Louise fully awake. 'Anna-Louise, wake-up,' I say. 'Wake up
the world is alive.
Douglas Coupland
#67. The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you're present in the current moment; when you're resonating with the excitement of this thing that you're experiencing; when you are fully alive.
Ken Robinson
#68. She is embarrassed to be alive and no one on earth can fully console her.
William Trevor
#69. To be fully alive is to have an aesthetic perception of life because a major part of the world's goodness lies in its often unspeakable beauty.
Yukitaka Yamamoto
#71. Who said death is dead? He's fully alive, traveling around the world, throwing shadows and soaking in the sun. Visiting the young and old; placing bets and dicing regrets, for the worse or a better off place.
Anthony Liccione
#72. People say they miss the deceased. I missed my father and my mother when they were still fully alive. They travelled through my childhood in the same way they moved around the hotel: my mother industrious, hurried, hidden; my father drunk, flamboyant, alone.
Sylvia Kristel
#73. When you learn to love your physical body, every activity can become a ritual of gratitude where you fully express the joy to be alive!
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#74. I am grateful for who I am and who I am not. I am grateful for the life I have been given and for all that I have and all that I don't. Every breath I take is a blessing and an opportunity to fully experience the sheer joy of being alive.
Miranda Kerr
#75. When we're feeling fully alive, we're able to fully feel love. This doorway also relates to feeling our feelings fully. Not suppressing our feelings of anger, sadness or grief but allowing them to be felt. What's amazing is that when those feelings are felt, they actually dissolve into love.
Marci Shimoff
#76. When we begin to fully understand worship and come to the realization that we are standing in the presence of God, our worship experience will come alive and be much more powerful.
Leland Watson
#77. Spirituality means to me living the ordinary life extraordinarily well. As the old-church father said, 'The glory of God is a human being fully alive.
William Sloane Coffin
#78. It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now ... with its aches and it pleasures ... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.
Pema Chodron
#79. I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama to watch these tapes. Watch a former organ harvester describe a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.
Carly Fiorina
#80. I still don't know how to live my life except on my haunches at the feet of Jesus, eyes fixed on his face. Nothing else "works." No formula, no method makes me feel so fully human and alive as the radical act of living loved.
Sarah Bessey
#81. To be fully alive, fully human
and completely awake is
to be continually thrown
out of the nest.
Pema Chodron
#82. To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.
John Dewey
#84. What does the universe want from us? It wants us to be alive. It wants us to fully partake in life. The universe thrives on the music we create.
Ruben Papian
#85. Allow yourself to experience fully every step of the journey, both the joy and the pain. You're alive. Greet the moment at hand with a grateful heart.
Eleanor Brown
#87. The future belongs to the one most fully alive in the present.
Paul Palnik
#88. Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God - or the universal woman-and-man - or anything much. I am what I feel and think and do. I want to express my being as fully as I can because I somewhere picked up the idea that I could justify my being alive that way.
Sylvia Plath
#89. To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.
Herbert Otto Gille
#90. If quantum entanglement is true, if related particles react in similar or opposite ways even when separated by tremendous distances, then it is obvious that the whole world is alive and communicating in ways we do not fully understand.
Christian Wiman
#91. Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive.
Wendy Wright
#92. To allow uncomfortable feelings is to be fully alive because it opens the emotional faucet that also supplies joy and excitement.
Deborah Sandella
#93. The price for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe's worth of darkness.
Matt Haig
#94. This keeping oneself alive, out of a blind urge to defeat death, is in itself a means of sowing death. Every one who has not fully accepted life, who is not incrementing life, is helping to fill the world with death.
Henry Miller
#95. Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.
Ella Maillart
#96. Arguably the greatest technological triumph of the century has been the public-health system, which is sophisticated preventive and investigative medicine organized around mostly low- and medium-tech equipment; ... fully half of us are alive today because of the improvements.
Richard Rhodes
#97. Nature is impulsive. To be impulsive is to be fully alive.
Marty Rubin
#98. 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
#99. Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.
Harry Chapin
#100. The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.
Ernest Becker
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