Alive Quote by Naoki Higashida

“...the reason is that when we look at nature, we receive a sort of permission to be alive in this world...” quote by Naoki Higashida — Download Open image

““...the reason is that when we look at nature, we receive a sort of permission to be alive in this world...””

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“... for me the number one reason is that us people with autism love the greenness of nature. ... Our fondness for nature is, I think, a little bit different to everyone else's. I'm guessing that what touches you in nature is the beauty of the trees and the flowers and things. But to us people with special needs, nature…

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I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this…

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I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.

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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that…

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I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.

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We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

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If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.

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I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive.

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

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I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot…

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