#alive

But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive? ↗

— William Booth

#attention #concentrated #desperate #gospel #keep

Being certain one is alive isn't something to which one pays mind. If you could ask the question, you were fine. If you could not, hopefully you had a cozy coffin. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

#coffin #dead #death #life #death

...don't settle for pap - our thoughts wander through eternity - experience the wonder of being alive... ↗

— John Geddes

#eternity #experience #experiences #pap #wisdom-inspirational

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

— Brendan Cowell

#freedom #youth #freedom

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#enjoy #figured #finally #i #only

We open the halves of a miracle, and a clotting of acids brims into the starry divisions: creation's original juices, irreducible, changeless, alive: so the freshness lives on ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#life #miracle #life

At that moment he knew one thing. The only thing that mattered. He loved her. ↗

— Julie James

#love

The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive. ↗

— Rob Montgomery

#ghosts #love #memory #remember #love

Even though I buried our love in a coffin, it isn’t dead. No, our love is very much alive. Or at least it was yesterday, when I went to visit the cemetery. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#buried #bury #cemetery #coffin #dead

I haven't seen or spoken to Ray Collins in at least 10 years so I don't even know if he's alive. I hope so. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#collins #even #haven #hope #i