RM Robin Morgan Feminist, Writer “Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.” Thinking Life Alive ♥ 5
Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor “If you don't know whether a body is alive or dead, you would never bury it. I think this consideration itself should be enough for all of us to insist on protecting the unborn.” Thinking Body Alive ♥ 5
Robert Jordan Author “Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.” Thinking Want ♥ 5
Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher “To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.” Men Alive ♥ 5
Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist “I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and build from them and throw out what doesn't work, or what simply is not alive.” Writing Alive Elements ♥ 5
J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter “I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.” Body Spirit Alive ♥ 5
Neil Gaiman Author “A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having...if not died, then having given up her life. It wasn't fair. "Life's not fair," said Ginnie, as if I had spoken aloud.” Trying Needs Alive ♥ 5
Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author “Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know ohw to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.” Way Inspirational Alive ♥ 5
Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist “To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.” Men Needs Alive ♥ 5
Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor “Is it a shame that I can’t accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else’s world?” Moving Smart Alive ♥ 5
Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher “After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to fulfill my reasoning capacity alone, which is no more than some one-twentieth of my capacity for living. What does reason know? It knows only what it has managed to learn (and it may never learn anything else; that isn't very reassuring, but why not admit it?), while human nature acts as a complete entity, with all that is in it, consciously or unconsciously; and though it may be wrong, it's nevertheless alive.” Life Order Alive ♥ 5
Mark Twain Writer, Humorist “My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them. . . . The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine-for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.” People Alive Gentleman ♥ 5
