Quotes About Enlivening

Controversy is bad for the spirit, however enlivening to the wits.

Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.

In our witness, we are to shine not our own light but Christ's light. Just as a lamp requires oil, we depend on our fellowship with Christ and the Holy Spirit's enlivening ministry through God's Word in order that Christ's light may shine through us.

sadness and depression are very different experiences. Sadness is a natural response to certain stimuli. It often results in tears and full breathing. It can be a powerful, rich, enlivening experience. Depression, on the other hand, is often the result of blocking sadness, or of blocking anger.

When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.

Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.

Tragedy is full of ghosts, ancient and modern, and the line separating the living from the dead is continually blurred. This means that in tragedy the dead don't stay dead and the living are not fully alive. What tragedy renders unstable is the line that separates the living from the dead, enlivening the dead and deadening the living.

Courage, my dear fellow,' said I, 'there is no space too great to allow of the sun's rays enlivening it—neither is that heart in existence which hope may not inhabit.

Your presence in England is extremely – shall we say enlivening? – Vidal. But I believe I shall survive the loss of it.

When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.

If this is your path, as it is mine, let me offer whatever solace you may find in this monstrous benediction: May you discover the enlivening power of darkness within yourself. May it nourish your rage. May your rage inform your actions, and your actions transform you as you struggle to transform your world.

Violence had an enlivening effect. As long as someone else was the victim it made the blood pump, gave the world an edge of glamour.

A fair sprinkling of fools in the world is as enlivening as a pinch of salt in a loaf of bread. They give a relish to life, and flavour with a brisk spicery of nonsense what would otherwise be oppressively flat. Civilized existence, if it were always cooked up and served to us by Mrs. Grundy herself, would be unpalatable enough; but luckily her infallible recipes are not always carried out, and a few plums and cloves get into her pudding.

People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.

People are unjust to anger — it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.

And have you ever run across a bright and enlivening sun in Gogol—a man from Ukraine?