Quotes About Vitality

The Spartan king Agesilaus was still fighting in armor when he was eighty-two. Picasso was painting past ninety, and Henry Miller was chasing women (I'm sure Picasso was too) at eighty-nine. Once we turn pro, we're like sharks who have tasted blood, or renunciants who have glimpsed the face of God. For us, there is no finish line. No bell ends the bout. Life is the pursuit. Life is the hunt. When our hearts burst... then we'll go out, and no sooner.

Don't force the players to animate your creation, breathe life into it from the very start.

most importantly, the entire body made light and nimble.

Who's sick? If I want to die, I'll just die; it's too tiresome to be sick. - Lotus

Seeking out and giving support are so vital to human beings that social psychologists Mario Mikulincer and Phil Shaver observe that, rather than being called Homo sapiens, or "one who knows," we should be named Homo auxiliator vel accipio auxilium, or "one who helps or receives help." To be even more accurate, I say we should be called Homo vinculum—"one who bonds.

You've been halfway living your life for too long. May was saying that when it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.

Really, her spirit is everywhere, Lily, just everywhere. Inside rocks and trees and even people, but sometimes it will get concentrated in certain places and just beam out at you in a special way.

What I'd loved in him most was my own aliveness, his ability to give me back to myself

lay beside him, drawing warmth from his body. We stared up at the branches, at clusters of yellow fruit, at the black sky smeared with stars. How awake we were, how alive. I pressed my ear to his chest and listened to the slow drumming. I thought us inseparable. A single timbre.

We're all alive. We're all health. These are the good times.

Can you dance? Of course, I said, even though I can't really. I think enthusiasm counts for a lot in dancing and in life.

It's good to learn stuff. It keeps us young.

Vitality is not the denial of mortality, but the grown-up way of facing it.

Fierce love speaks to the energy that flows through a relationship. Energy keeps a relationship vital.  Fierce denotes a powerful energetic force that is present in our conversations, during lovemaking, even during a relaxing game of cards. We see our relationship as a living breathing being, a being with a pulse, needs, and a purpose.  Your job is to keep this being fed, energized, and vitally alive.  

For if you start dancing on tables, fanning yourself, feeling sleepy when you pick up a book, developing a sense of rhythm, making love whenever you feel like it—then you know. The south has got you. *

Do stuff, be clenched, curious, not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention, it's all about paying attention. Attention is vitality, it connects you with others. It makes you eager, stay eager.

The most precious thing is vitality—not in any sinister Lawrentian sense, but just the will+energy+appetite to do what one wants to do+not to be 'sunk' by disappointments. Aristotle is right: happiness is not to be aimed at; it is a by-product of activity aimed at.

Now he knew . . . that there was nothing so vital as paying attention, and perfecting the humble offices of love.

provide energy on the days the sun could not. The batteries were old

Although I felt very weak, I did not feel ill; and strength, one always fancies, is a thing that may be picked up when we please.

had a lot of living to do!

the glow in Libby's cheeks. When there

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

Success requires HIGH energy and HIGH EXCITEMENT