21 quotes found
“Nature is impulsive. To be impulsive is to be fully alive.”
“When we move in a direction that touches our heart, we add to the momentum of deeper purpose that makes us feel more alive.”
“When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function.”
“To trust in your own aliveness, in your own ability to sustain and be sustained - there are times when there is no greater act of defiance.”
“Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.”
“John ODonohue gave voice to the connection between beauty and those edges of lifethresholds was the word he lovedwhere the fullness of reality becomes more stark and more clear. If you go back to t...”
“Grief is an element of aliveness and the answer to the denial the market demands of us. It is an index of our humanity. It is proof of the presence of our relatedness to each other. It is a communa...”
“Choose thoughts that give you the emotions of being alive and excited about life.”
“When negative feelings move upon you, reflect, and recognize the danger of feeding those feelings and keeping them alive.”
“I synonymously felt my heart beat rapaciously, the heart which was once void of anything alive and well. Now the heart was rasping and knocking on my ribcage as if it was demanding to come out, tak...”
“Just living is not always living. Look at your life. Can you call it a blessing? Can you call it a gift? A present of existence? Would you want this life to be given to you again and again?”
“Your pain is reminding you that the gift of life is tender and precious. Suffering cuts to the quick of aliveness.”
“Pain is the clarion of aliveness trumpeting that you are living in the marvelous tender cause of life!”
“A hibernating snail doe not necessarily mean it is dead”
“When we limit ourselves by being the person we should be, we limit our aliveness. We may achieve success but not fulfillment because we are not living out all the important truths about ourselves, ...”
“It's worth it to stay alive. Because life is hard in the moment, it's hard to see what can be down the road. You get tunnel vision and I think that the current moment is all you have left. But that...”
“Sure. You want to be touched, inspired and made to feel alive. But a relationship is like a bridge where you meet other people half-way. That means if you want to be touched, inspired and made to f...”
“Life offers many reasons to be alive. Death offers none.”
“John O’Donohue gave voice to the connection between beauty and those edges of life—thresholds was the word he loved—where the fullness of reality becomes more stark and more clear. If you go back t...”
