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Quotes About Vitality

Some people have vibrations that come straight from the vibrating heart of the sun, unjaded...
~ Jack Kerouac
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running - that's the way to live.
~ Jack Kerouac
Il pouvait à peine placer un mot tellement ça l'excitait de vivre.
~ Jack Kerouac
I promise I shall never give up and that I'll die yelling and laughing.
~ Jack Kerouac
He wasn't drunk on liquor, just drunk on what he liked—crowds of people milling.
~ Jack Kerouac
There was excitement and the air was filled with the vibration of really joyous life that knows nothing of disappointment and "white sorrows" and all that
~ Jack Kerouac
Las únicas personas que me interesan son los los locos, los que están locos por vivir, locos por hablar, locos por salvarse, los que lo desean todo a la vez, los que nunca bostezan ni hablan de lugares comunes, sino que arden, arden, arden como fuegos artificiales extraordinarios que explotan como arañas en las estrellas, y en el centro vemos estallar una luz azul, y todo el mundo dice «¡Uau!».
~ Jack Kerouac
His excitement blew out of his eyes in stabs of fiendish light. He rolled his neck in spastic ecstasy. He lisped, he writhed, he flopped, he moaned, he howled, he fell back in despair. He could hardly get a word out, he was so excited with life.
~ Jack Kerouac
Oh, smell the people! yelled Dean with his face out the window, sniffing. Ah, God! Life!
~ Jack Kerouac, On the Road
But, – and there it is, – we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move. If it were not for this, life would be dead. It is because of this life that is in you that you dream of your immortality.
~ Jack London
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
~ Jack London
There is a patience of the wild – dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself.
~ Jack London
Life that did not yearn toward life was in fair way toward ceasing.
~ Jack London
Life streamed through him in splendid flood, glad and rampant, until it seemed that it would burst him asunder in sheer ecstasy and pour forth generously over the world.
~ Jack London
They alone moved through the vast inertness. They alone were alive, and they sought for other things that were alive in order that they might devour them and continue to live.
~ Jack London
The pitch to which he was aroused was tremendous. All the fighting blood of his breed was up in him and surging through him. This was living., though he did not know it. He was realizing his own meaning in the world; he was doing that for which he was made.... He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.
~ Jack London
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark burn out in a brilliant blaze than it be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
~ Jack London
And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
~ Jack London
Now it happens that I am a fluid sort of an organism, with sufficient kinship with life to fit myself in 'most anywhere.
~ Jack London
I've still got a twinkle in me.
~ Robert Plant
I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent and twisted, but I can stop that.
~ Ruth Rendell
Being a two-way player that's consistently transitioning from offense to defense, it's imperative I fuel my body with an all-natural source of performance energy like Glukos that keeps my energy levels high.
~ Tobin Heath
Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
~ Bill Blass
Ultimately, we're incredibly resilient creatures. People really do get on with the business of living.
~ Lynn Nottage