Quotes About Vitality

We are not old, and even if we are, we are not dead.

active wisdom --an entire cohort with something new to offer to the world as years of experience combined with continuing health. [p. 52]

I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild an want it back.

Be ignited, or be gone.

knowing as we must, how the vivacity of what was is married to the vitality of what will be? I don't say it's easy, but what else will do

But all my life—so far— I have loved best how the flowers rise and open, how the pink lungs of their bodies enter the fire of the world and stand there shining and willing—the one thing they can do before they shuffle forward into the floor of darkness, they become the trees.

and also I am the leaves and the blossoms, and, like them, I am full of delight, and shaking.

I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild and want it back.

I tell you that ant is very alive! Look at how he fusses at being stepped on.

When the thumb of fear lifts, we are so alive.

Her life's full of exclamation points.

I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.

perhaps the component parts of a creature might be manufactured, brought together, and endued with vital warmth.

became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.

My own spirits were high, and I bounded along with feelings of unbridled joy and hilarity.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive, well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming, 'Woo-hoo! What a ride.

As I mentioned earlier, the diagnostic feature of life is that it captures energy to create order.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Rise and shine, porcupines!

But there was some life in the thing

I think something is art when it is created with intention. Serious intention. Even crazy intention. And I think something is beautiful if it reveals something important about what it means to be alive.

joy is one's fuel.

Yet there is nothing emotional or rebellious in her countenance; it is one of profound, inexorable calm; but one feels the tense vitality, the primitive fire, the untamed strength in the defiant immobility of her slender body, the proud line of her head held high, the sweep of her tousled hair. " Excerpt From: Ayn Rand. "Night of January 16th.