Quotes About Vitality

Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.

Choosing our own aims and seeking to bring them to fruition creates a sense of vitality and motivation in life. The only things that derail our efforts are fear and oppression.

The difference between trying to be fit and not being fit really means the difference between life and death.

Life is the one thing you cannot get out of alive.

The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me.

I have a strong constitution which has served me quite well, though if I hadn't had such a strong one I might have led a more healthy life perhaps.

I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring. Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature's rebirth?

The important thing is not how many years in your life but how much life in your years.

The tendency to think that a city can build itself out of decline is an example of the edifice error, the tendency to think that abundant new building leads to urban success. Successful cities typically do build, because economic vitality makes people willing to pay for space and builders are happy to accommodate. But building is the result, not the cause, of success. Overbuilding a declining city that already has more structures than it needs is nothing but folly.

Needs danger in order to feel engaged with life and truly alive

As far as I can see, many people who don't have ADD are charter members of the Society of the Congenitally Boring. And

Himes's message was the cruelty, the destructiveness, the absurdity of black oppression. These messages may be found in all his books, but his best writings transcend message to express a comic exuberance, a vitality, a richness of black life that all the injustices and dreadful miseries he records cannot overcome.

A human naturally requires Money, Shelter, and Sex for living without frustration, anger, and rage. Since as others, I realize it as well; however, I feel that as a need, not as my weakness; thus, it protects from every evil of this world.

Each organ of the human body works, as its nature, and its soul energizes that. Soul rules the entire body accordingly as the constitution of it; otherwise, the body stays as a statue. Similarly, the State becomes stable with all its institutions, as a systematic and constitutional, which vitalizes the entire State; otherwise, it stands as empty of a system that proves itself a failed State.

Nature within breath and breath within nature is life.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Just breathing isn't living!

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

When you stop learning you stop living in any vital and meaningful sense.

I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring about something in this country which is more vital here than anywhere else, because we have the chance to make a democracy that will be a real democracy.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

He had been painting all day, and the spring was in his blood like a madness.