Quotes About Vitality

Ours is a shockingly dead view of creation. We ourselves are the only things in the universe to which we grant an authentic vitality, and because of this we are not fully alive.

More honestly and purely speaks the healthy body, perfect and square-built; and it speaks of the meaning of the earth.-

Yo necesito compañeros, pero compañeros vivos; no muertos y cadáveres que tenga que llevar a cuestas por donde vaya.

I am not a man, I am dynamite

A living thing seeks above all to DISCHARGE its strength—life itself is WILL TO POWER; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent RESULTS thereof.

Los fisiólogos deberían pensárselo bien antes de afirmar que el instinto de autoconservación es el instinto cardinal de un ser orgánico. Algo vivo quiere, antes que nada, dar libre curso a su fuerza — la vida misma es voluntad de poder —: la autoconservación es tan sólo una de las consecuencias indirectas y más frecuentes de esto.

What matters is not eternal life, but eternal vivacity.

If this is not an age of decay and declining vitality, it is at least one of headlong and arbitrary experimentation:— and it is probable that a superabundance of bungled experiments should create an overall impression as of decay— and perhaps even decay itself.

I teach the No to all that makes weak—that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.

The cult of the madman is also always the cult of him who is rich in vitality, and who is a powerful man.

If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.

If there are any persons who contest a received opinion ... let us thank them for it, open our minds to listen to them, and rejoice that there is some one to do for us what we otherwise ought, if we have any regard for either the certainty or the vitality of our convictions, to do with much greater labor for ourselves. —John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Of all that is written I love only what a man has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will experience that blood is spirit.

Things have a life of their own. It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.

I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers...

What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we've read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, what we do after reading; whether the street and the clouds and the existence of others mean anything to us; whether reading makes us, physically, more alive.

Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.

Enthusiastic people experience life from the inside out.

Bohr argued that life was not infused into an organism by some mysterious 'vital' force but, like everything else in the universe, must be grounded in atoms and molecules that behaved according to the laws of physics and chemistry.

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don't know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

Performing is an exchange of a lot of energy and it can wipe you out.

Women have more energy, for a greater number of years, than men. Men, as they age, become either more wise or more stupid.

Energy wise, playing the drums was a lot of fun; I just felt like it was a natural fit for me.

It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.