Quotes About Vitality

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me.

Movement inspires a lot in me.

Intensity is so much more becoming in the young.

I have a lot of energy, a lot of interest, a lot of desire.

I think I have a lot of internal energy, which does need to come out.

My claustrophobia from San Francisco begins to vanish—that cheerful shipshape vitality of the north violates my spirit and I long for vast sprawls, smog, and luke nights: L.A. It is where I work best, where I can live, oblivious to physical reality.

When we are in good health, we all feel very real, solid, and permanent; and this is of all our illusions the most ridiculous, and also the most obviously useful from the point of view of the efficiency and preservation of the race.

The thing may sound absurd to you, but you can do it if you will: standing back, as it were, from the vague and purposeless reactions in which most men fritter their vital energies. Then you can survey with a certain calm, a certain detachment, your universe and the possibilities of life within it: can discern too, if you be at all inclined to mystical adventure, the stages of the road along which you must pass on your way towards harmony with the Real.

Listen to me, attend me! And I will breathe into thee a soul, And thou shalt live for ever.

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

The chief privilege of capitalism, today as in the past, remains the ability to choose.... And since it does have the freedom to choose, capitalism can always change horses in mid-stream--the secret of its vitality.

PRONTO SE DIRÁ DE VOSOTROS, LO QUE SUELE AHORA DECIRSE DE NOSOTROS: ¡¡MURIERON!! Macabro y trivial. Y cómo se resiste la gente a devolverle al planeta los átomos prestados. De hecho, lo raro y excepcional es estar vivo.

Our BODIES—their health, their availability—are an unavoidable domain of concern for us as human beings.

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

Break the bone and suck out the substantific marrow.

I got all my limbs," Mosca answered quickly. "I been knocked and scraped and chased about but my heart's still beating inside my hide.

One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives you know nothing about. The breeze lifting a blue curtain in a doorway billows just the same whether you are lucky enough to observe it or not. Travel gives such jolts. I could live in this town, so how is it that I've never been here before today?

Only staying active will make You want to a live a hundred years.

The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

Wisdom is the contant questioning of where you are. And when you stop wanting to know, you're dea. You're walking, but you're dead.

The vitality [of] the Bible [is] exhibited in every generation . . .Its power to transform lives is its best apologetic.