#alive

On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?' ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#asked #beliefs #buildings #burning #did

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. ↗

— George Eliot

#alive #beautiful #certain #certain things #feel

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. ↗

— George Eliot

#breath #charter #conscience #contest #dogma

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#acceptance #alive #because #everybody #human

I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline. ↗

— Jack LaLanne

#discipline #exercise #i #i do #keep

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. ↗

— Chow Yun-Fat

#camera #front #keeps #me #working

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#ascribe #being #bring #life #meaning

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#alive #became #brilliant #fed #great

His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it. ↗

— Algernon H. Blackwood

#became #bore #breath #conceived #discovered

I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard. ↗

— Paula Deen

#am #american #american dream #dream #exists