She forced a weak smile. And that your sense of humor is terrible. Listen to the sounds from outside, smell the scents. Feel inhabiting your body, be present here and now. This was what I had never felt before--an emotional connection to another human being.
I'd tried kindness, I'd tried love, I'd tried friendship. I'd tried talking and sharing and watching, and nothing had ever worked until now. Until fear. I felt her fear in every inch of my body like an electric hum, and I was alive for the first time. I needed more right then or the craving would eat me alive. But I don't want to die. Dying is easy. No I want to live. But getting close to death is the only way to feel alive. And once you do it makes you realize that everything you were doing before wasn't actually living.
It was just making due. We feel dead when we shirk from these choices, even if we're "comfortable" with our warm homes, cars, video games, pornography and serving-size packaged prefabricated foods.
Seniors Rock! And feeling is how you know you're alive. Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.
The most important function of art and science is to Awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive. It's nice when people are happy to hear that you're still alive, rather than feeling like "Oh, finally he's dead? Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again. Meeting people in a genuine way and feeling like there is a vital and meaningful connection going on makes me come alive. I welcome all butterflies into my heart because that feeling is a constant reminder of how alive and full of love I truly am.
For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling. You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it must look like a grimace. Peeta's alive. Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit.
If we keep our little flame alive, our first feeling of enthusiasm of who we are, without the influence or intervention of others, we will prevail. When I am truly present, I feel alive, and I want everyone around me to share that feeling so we can make the most of that moment together.
All these feelings that you get before you fight or when you're fighting or training for a fight, it makes me feel alive, and I love that feeling. For all the hardship, I was still excited to be on the trail, testing my endurance, feeling especially alive as strength and fatigue flowed alternately through my limbs.
Most people manage pain by eating, drinking, smoking, distracting themselves, working harder. That's just managing pain, the pain that comes from not feeling fully alive from not growing. Sometimes being fooled by love is worth the price. At least you know you're alive and capable of feeling, even if all you end up with is chest pain.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. Votes: 4 Joseph Campbell. Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.
Votes: 4 Douglas Coupland. Toggle navigation Quote Master. All Categories All Authors Numbers. Quotes about Feeling Alive 19 Picture Quotes. Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light. The truth is 1 being alive. Angelina Jolie. That the things we do To feel dive Are things that can Kill us. Votes: 3 India. Arie Helpful Not Helpful. Votes: 3 J. Redmerski Helpful Not Helpful. Votes: 0 Willard F. Harley Helpful Not Helpful.
Votes: 0 J. Rowling Helpful Not Helpful. Votes: 0 M. Rose Helpful Not Helpful. Votes: 0 Karen A. Do you ever feel like this? You're moving through the world, encountering people left and right but there's something not quite present - like you KNOW there's more to them, but it's like they're sleeping.
Or closed. And so, somehow, you have to close a little, too. Then you meet someone who side-slides into the room of life and screams, "I'm alive! I'm present! Here I am! I KNEW you were alive. I've been looking everywhere for you! And even if you ended up hating them later, you would love them because they weren't sleeping, and with them you didn't have to sleep, either. I'm pretty sure that's what makes real friends happen.
If you want to be happy, find out what work makes you feel most alive and go and do it. I'm one of these people that likes adrenaline and new things, like extreme sports. It makes me feel alive. I can climb up the side of a wall. Fight twenty guys to a standstill. Swing across chasms thirty stories deep. Feel a bullet coming my way and move fast enough to get clear. But something in her makes me gentle. Makes me shy. Makes me strong. Makes me happy to be alive. And maybe that's it.
Maybe that's what it really comes down to. She makes me. Makes me whole She completes me So here's the thing, God I know I complain a lot, and I know that you and me, we've got issues, but right now, just for tonight Thank you for her. Thank you. Amazing Spider-Man 53 Volume 2 — J. Michael Straczynski. Dance releases endorphin chemicals into your brain and makes you feel alive and wanting to get on with the rest of your day. That positivity can help you to communicate better with other people because it gives you a much better mind set.
Socially it brings you together with people. It makes sense. It's all there. Everything that's beautiful or wise or significant has been written down at some time or other. How can anybody have the gall or the self-satisfaction to ignore all that? Who would want to? You read to feel alive, to bring things to life in yourself that you didn't know were there. All those folds and creases in your brain have some function, some potential, all the nerve endings are waiting to be stimulated.
And it's all in the books. The whole fucking world is there if you know how to find it. Reading isn't an escape from life. It is life. It creates life. This song always kills me, I said. She sighed, and then gave up. Oh, I don't know. It makes me feel nostalgia for a time I never even knew. I wasn't even alive. That's what I do to you too, she said, I'll just bet. I was what everything I loved did to me. Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about?
It just makes me feel glad to be alive it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it?
There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there? But am I talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn't talk? If you say so I'll stop. What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping. Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity, beauty, the conditions for health and safety, and a good place to do and feel all the things you wish and need to do and feel in your home.
Whether you live alone or with a spouse, parents, and ten children, it is your housekeeping that makes your home alive, that turns it into a small society in its own right, a vital place with its own ways and rhythms, the place where you can be more yourself than you can be anywhere else.
I don't think anyone is ever ready, but when someone makes you feel alive again it's kind of worth the risk Anger is a consuming thing, a burning takeover. It sets up shop in your heart and head and murders anything else attempting to makes it way in. Life becomes obsessed with it, clouded with it, engrossed in it. You justify feeling with delusions that you're owed retribution. You condone thoughts and vengeful acts, feeding yourself with the idea that it's warranted. But that nourishment comes at a price.
It costs you pieces of your soul, your love, your worth. You disregard your beliefs, your conscience. You adopt apathy like it's salvation because you know in your heart of hearts that you would deteriorate into nothing without it. Because you don't want to let it go. It makes you feel powerful, that anger. It makes you feel important. So you will let it eat you alive, consume every part of you until all that's left is hollow revenge.
I'm sorry. I don't know how many times to tell you this for you to know it," I continued. I've never felt more alive, more loved, happier, than when I hold you in my arms.
Seeing your face makes my heart beat faster, in a good way, and I feel this calmness come over me. I don't know why, but it's always been this way with you. I understand if you can't forgive me, and I know you could do better, but I'm going to try my damnedest to make it up to you when I get out of here.
I don't care if it takes a year, or ten, or even twenty. I will make you see how much I care. Sometimes you meet someone, and it's so clear that the two of you, on some level belong together. As lovers, or as friends, or as family, or as something entirely different. You just work, whether you understand one another or you're in love or you're partners in crime.
You meet these people throughout your life, out of nowhere, under the strangest circumstances, and they help you feel alive. I don't know if that makes me believe in coincidence, or fate, or sheer blind luck, but it definitely makes me believe in something.
In the classic children's story The Velveteen Rabbit, a stuffed animal becomes "real" because of a child's love. Tamagotchis do not wait passively but demand attention and claim that without it they will not survive.
With this aggressive demand for care, the question of biological aliveness almost falls away. We love what we nurture; if a Tamagotchi makes you love it, and you feel it loves you in return, it is alive enough to be a creature. Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing. God knows, when spring comes to Paris the humbles mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise It [is] his Paris.
A man does not need to be rich, nor even a citizen, to feel this way about Paris. Paris is filled with poor people - the proudest and filthiest lot of beggars that ever walked the earth And yet they give the illusion of being at home. It is that which distinguishes the Parisian from all other metropolitan souls. When I think of New York I have a very different feeling.
New York makes even a rich man feel his unimportance. New York is cold, glisttering, malign. The buildings dominate. There is a sort of atomic frenzy to the activity going on; the more furious the pace, the more diminished the spirit Nobody knows what it's all about. Nobody directs the energy. A tremendous reactive urge, but absolutely uncoordinated. Being of service to others daily makes me feel alive. There are certain artworks that I respond to, artists that I respond to.
It's an intellectual reaction but it's also a biological reaction. And the excitement that the work can generate - how it makes you feel about not only your intellectual possibilities but your physical possibilities in this world. How it feels to be alive! My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it? You see an artist, a creative person, can accept criticism or can live with the criticism much more easily than with being ignored.
Criticism makes you feel alive. If somebody is bothered enough to speak vituperatively about it, you feel you have touched a nerve and you are at least 'in touch. He feels so real. He's what I crave. He's what I want. He makes me feel alive. Retiring isn't even a word I'd understand. Taking what makes you feel alive , and everyone's looking for ways of making them feel alive, in whatever they do - relationships, business or work - and not just being a voice for a money making business.
We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or are they just good pictures?
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