John O’Donahue gave voice to the connection between beauty and those edges of life—thresholds was the word he loved—where the fullness of reality becomes more stark and more clear. If you go back to the etymology of the word “threshold,” it comes from “threshing,” which is to separate the grain from the husk. So the threshold, in a way, is a place where you move into more critical and challenging and worthy fullness. There are huge thresholds in every life. You know that, for instance, if you are in the middle of your life in a busy evening, fifty things to do, and you get a phone call that somebody you love is suddenly dying, it takes ten seconds to communicate that information. But when you put the phone down, you are already standing in a different world. Suddenly everything that seems so important before is all gone, and now you are thinking of this. So the given world that we think is there and the solid ground we are on is so tentative. And a threshold is a line which separates two territories of spirit, and very often how we cross is the key thing.

— Krista Tippett

Just living is not always living. Look at your life. Can you call it a blessing? Can you call it a gift? A present of existence? Would you want this life to be given to you again and again?

— Osho

Life offers many reasons to be alive. Death offers none.

— Aditya Ajmera

Nature is impulsive. To be impulsive is to be fully alive.

— Marty Rubin

Pain is the clarion of aliveness trumpeting that you are living in the marvelous tender cause of life!

— Bryant McGill

Sure. You want to be touched, inspired and made to feel alive. But a relationship is like a bridge where you meet other people half-way. That means if you want to be touched, inspired and made to feel alive, you have to be touching, inspiring and bring the fire of your aliveness to the union of your companionship.

— Bryant McGill

The amazing feeling of being alive beautifully conquers the fear of death

— Munia Khan

The splendor of that moment, its transcendent glory and aliveness, haunted him. He could thrust it aside by day, but it poisoned his dreams by night, calling to him and pleading with him to unlock the chains he'd bound about it.

— David Weber

To live, to truly live, one must consider each and every thing a blessing.

— Kamand Kojouri

To trust in your own aliveness, in your own ability to sustain and be sustained - there are times when there is no greater act of defiance.

— Jessica Fechtor