M. F. K. Fisher Quotes

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

When you realize you're alive, you can live life!

Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.

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

I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.

What is important is that we stop and realize, 'Okay. This is fine. I can enjoy that.' But what is really important, what I'm really going to take away with me from this life, is my connection with other people.

I don't mean to be overly sensitive or anything like that, but you just have to take a minute in every day, and just reflect on where you are, and just realise what you've got, because you just never know where the next huge change in your life is going to come from.

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?

Life is but thought.

The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.

When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think of as burdensome are actually the things that make us more human.

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

At times I think and at times I am.

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.

Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.