Bill Bryson Quotes

I try to just take in every moment of being alive.

Most people tell you there are certain moments you should celebrate in life: for example, the weekend coming, so you should party on a Friday. Or your birthday or New Year's Eve. But what if you're excited about being alive every day? Can't you be in that celebratory state every moment you're not dead?

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

What ever your doing right now, whatever your thinking, or worrying about. stop. take a huge breathe in, and just enjoy being alive.

Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.

I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great.

It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

I decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about.

I may not believe in life after death, but what a gift it is to be alive now.

I think it's a fantastic thing to be alive.

Isn't it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!

Sometimes we get caught up in our troubles and our problems and we let life slip away, but life is precious, all of life, and one must try to take in as much of it as possible.

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything. When a child presents himself to you with his smile, if you are not really there - thinking about the future or the past, or preoccupied with other problems - then the child is not really there for you. The technique of being alive is to go back to yourself in order for the child to appear like a marvellous reality. Then you can see him smile and you can embrace him in your arms.

I hope everyone wakes up and appreciates life.

I don't have any other message than don't forget you are alive

It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.

Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know ohw to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive. Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.

Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?

It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive.

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.