The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
George Washington

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
Andy Warhol

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
W. C. Fields

There's place and means for every man alive.
William Shakespeare

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell

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

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
Joseph Campbell

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Robert H. Schuller

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
Samuel Goldwyn

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
Samuel Goldwyn

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
Ansel Adams

I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.
Michael Jackson