#alive

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#carpe-diem #dead #death #dream #dying

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words. ↗

— Deng Ming-Dao

#experience #holy-books #life #living #religion

I had no idea how free we were. That's how free I was. ↗

— Brendan Cowell

#freedom #youth #freedom

Sometimes it just feels really really wonderful to be alive. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#happiness #life #living #love #life

Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#life

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#to-put-it-another-way #life

When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real. ↗

— Margery Williams

#being #child #childhood #love #meaning

And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#breath #live #love

I’m the type of girl, When you fall in love, You fall forever. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin #unreleased-song #love

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life. ↗

— Geoffrey Beene

#form #giving #life #like #me