Grateful To Be Alive Quotes

#1. No one is more grateful to be alive than someone who thought they were going to die.

J.M. Darhower

#2. Derailed. In exile. Deeply ashamed, despised. Yet she had so little pride, she was grateful most days simply to be alive.
There is Minimalist art; there are minimalist lives.

Joyce Carol Oates

#3. I'm alive with love in my heart.. I'm grateful for each moment.. With a little patience and god's grace I know everything in my life will work out on its own time!

Nehali Lalwani

#4. I'm just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I'm alive.

Brene Brown

#5. Sharing our personal stories makes us grateful for experiencing the radiance of being alive. Writing our personal stories documenting our vivid encounters with the larger world and examining our own time-tested ideas shapes the conception of our own being.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#6. The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, 'Thank you, Lord!' I'm grateful to be alive, and I'm going to try to tell the truth as well as I know and tell it as eloquently as I can so that people can hear it.

Maya Angelou

#7. If your parents are alive, be grateful at the opportunity to earn Jannah by serving them

Nouman Ali Khan

#8. I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.

Srikumar Rao

#9. I'm grateful for every day I'm still alive. Everything is still working. I attribute it to eating a lot of processed foods. I think it's the preservatives that keep me going. That, and I eat as much chocolate as I can get my hands on.

Joan Rivers

#10. These little contradictions are in all of us. They're in me at least. And so I forgot that I had been awake for 30 hours and kept walking, grateful to be a little boat full of water, still floating.

John Green

#11. Find things to be grateful for. It is easy. You're alive; that's a good thing to start being grateful for right away.

Allan G. Hunter

#12. Life is too short to not to be grateful for every moment we are alive.Today I have so much to be thankful for.

Demi Lovato

#13. Everyone who is alive can find something to be grateful for if they look for it. If you are among the few that can't find anything, start with the fact that you are ALIVE and continue from there. Counting ones blessings is a barometer of mental health.

Gudjon Bergmann

#14. It may seem strange, but the most grateful I've ever felt was when I was held up at gunpoint. After I handed over my wallet and the mugger ran off into the woods, I thought, 'Thank you for not shooting me.' I was overwhelmingly glad to be alive and unharmed.

Juliana Hatfield

#15. What a blessed bliss to be alive?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Will all have troubles. But if you're grateful to be alive & positive enough to know you can change things around ... guess what? You will!

Timothy Pina

#17. I am grateful to be alive.

Amy Leigh Mercree

#18. I cannot express to you how grateful I am that I am a Christian. Before I was a Christian, I went through a time in my life where I just didn't know why I was alive.

Ray Comfort

#19. Like I don't know the first thing about how to be simply grateful that I'm alive. Maybe that's what's missing in our generation. Maybe we just feel too safe, too secure. We have too much stuff and no threat of any of it disappearing anytime soon.

Dave Eggers

#20. If all that I know as being alive will end one day, shouldn't I be grateful that I still get to enjoy it now?

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#21. Music has touched me deeply, sometimes to tears. But at the same time it's been life-affirming, because I've been grateful for the fact that I'm alive and human and capable of being so moved.

Brian Molko

#22. I could never be cynical, not that I think there's anything wrong with cynicism. I think it can be quite funny at times. But I just feel so grateful to be alive.

Drew Barrymore

#23. If there's one thing I can say when it's my time to look back over my glorious life is I lived, bravely and fiercly in the chaos of it all.

Nikki Rowe

#24. I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.

Kurt Vonnegut

#25. There was nothing like the cold, heavy steel of a gun, the soft moan of an appreciative woman or the sharp burn of a good single malt to make a man grateful to be alive. Tonight, with his gun gone and his sex life a wasteland, Dash had to settle for whiskey.

Amy Andrews

#26. My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened ... well, I'm just thankful to be alive. I'm just grateful to be here at all.

Travis Barker

#27. It's a nice feeling,
Knowing,
Someone lived easier
Because I was alive.

Nikki Rowe

#28. For as much as I hate the cemetery, I've been grateful it's here, too. I miss my wife. It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the places where she was alive.

John Scalzi

#29. I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

Adam Ant

#30. Count your blessings. Be grateful
you're alive

Laurence Gonzales

#31. She liked soot, and heat, and grime, and she was beginning to realize, if she didn't actually like her aloneness, she was at least comforted by it. She should be grateful; she knew, she knew. She should be thrilled just to be alive. So why was it she preferred to expect nothing?

Alice Hoffman

#32. The guitar is of no great importance to me. The people it brings to me are what matter. They are what I'm extremely grateful for, because they are alive. The guitar is just an apparatus.

Pat Martino

#33. There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don't feel grateful to them for their work.

Jasmine Guy

#34. 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

#35. To celebrate the inner presence of God . . . is to become grateful for every moment of life. Every mundane and every juicy moment is sacred because God is alive in us . .

Jeff Imbach

#36. I see the sky as beautiful,
Regardless of its shine
Because I wake each day grateful,
That I get another chance to be alive.

Nikki Rowe

#37. You can't feel crazily grateful to be alive your whole life any more than you can stay passionately in love forever - or grieve forever, for that matter. Time makes us all betray ourselves and get back to the busywork of living.

Tim Kreider

#38. I am so grateful to be alive. It's ridiculous to be alive.

Eve Ensler

#39. 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

#40. I am grateful just because I am alive today.

Debasish Mridha

#41. Be grateful. These feelings, no matter how painful, are part of
living. Today, we are alive - not anesthetized, not sedated, not passed
out. Take control of your feelings and through action you can change.
Today, as every day of sober living, we have a choice.

Ann D. Clark

#42. From experience we know that whenever we are truly awake and alive, we are also truly grateful.

David Steindl-Rast

#43. Gratitude is not a fair weather virtue. True gratitude means appreciating your life no matter what the storms may bring. Is simply being alive gift enough for you to feel grateful?

Mac Anderson

#44. Part of her revolted against the insanity of the rules. Part of her was grateful. In a world of chaos, any guidelines helped. And she knew that each day she remained alive, she remained alive. One plus one plus one. The Devil's arithmetic ...

Jane Yolen

#45. I am grateful for being alive today. It is my joy and pleasure to live another wonderful day.

Louise Hay

#46. I'm grateful to be alive, because I really did not think I was going to be alive, onstage performing songs.

Sharon Jones

#47. The first is wake up in the morning and be grateful you are here, alive and healthy. And the second is: Give.

Gisele Bundchen

#48. Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.

Bernie Siegel

#49. Despite many reports to the contrary, kindness, concern, and a desire to do good and make a positive difference in this life are alive and well in America. For that, I am extremely grateful.

Ken Wahl

#50. Every moment of life is precious and can never happen again and therefore is a reason to appreciate, be grateful for and celebrate the fact that you are alive.

Zelig Pliskin

#51. Hypothermia. That's what they called it. I called it being freaking alive, and I couldn't have been more grateful.

Darynda Jones

#52. Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to see it.

Paul Theroux