John Green Quotes

Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.

You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.

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

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

Suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe.

I'm very conscious of the luck I've had. It's important to have this in your mind and remember it.

I'm alive. That's a good thing.

I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

When you are present, the world is truly alive.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

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

I am here and I'm alive. That's enough.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.

When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts.

If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.

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

Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.

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

Omnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don't want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I'm super-grateful.

Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so.

The greatest of all miracles is to be alive.