Quotes About Being Fully Alive

#1. 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

#2. Adventure should be part of everyone's life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.

Holly Morris

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. The mode in which that glory is to be seen in the present is praise. "I will sing praise to my God while I have being." The glory of God, said the theologian Irenaeus, is a human being fully alive.

N. T. Wright

#8. The opposite of depression isn't feeling happy but being fully alive, however painful

Gwyneth Lewis

#9. If you're going to get Twitter just to write mean things: don't get Twitter, get a life!

Kiran Mathew

#10. Keeping the energy centers we call chakras open and balanced is absolutely essential to being intuitive and also being healthy and fully alive.

Catherine Carrigan

#11. Saturday is an illusion.

Nelson Rodrigues

#12. I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials ... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

Francis Bacon

#13. 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

#14. To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.

John Dewey

#15. 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

#16. Annual state spending alone for prison facilities is now estimated at about $52 to $62 billion, the bulk of which is spent building new facilities; operating and maintaining more prisons; providing food and health care for prisoners; and administration and staff salaries and benefits.

Christopher Zoukis

#17. 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

#18. Only God knows when the alarm will sound, ending the work and ministry of evangelism as we have known it.

Billy Graham

#19. 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

#20. I've been so incredibly blessed. I've worked with some of the greatest professionals in town. I stood at the Golden Globes.

Isaiah Washington

#21. 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

#22. That's what any committed patriot would do: Fight to the last. Defeat your enemy at any cost; then hope you have enough left to rebuild.

Randolph D. Calverhall

#23. What makes me fully alive is anything. Really just being alive is enough.

Robert Thurman

#24. Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

Nhat Hanh

#25. 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

#26. Lord Rothschild had access to all manner of leaders and experts. He was responsible only to the Prime Minister and answerable to neither the electorate nor the civil service chiefs.

Derek Wilson

#27. 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

#28. There was no testimony of conspiracy - Oswald's efforts to get in touch with the Soviets and with the Cuban Fair Play groups in New York were rebuffed, rebuffed at every step.

John Sherman Cooper

#29. 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

#30. If you run your ship with the conviction that everyone's a slacker, your employees will put all their ingenuity into proving you right.

Jason Fried

#31. 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

#32. I'm not scared of death, just tired. So fucking tired of being alive yet never fully breathing.

Jessica Sorensen

#33. 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