Quotes About Vitality

The mentally healthy individual", writes Wilson. "is he who habitually calls upon fairly deep levels of vital reserves. An individual whose mind is allowed to become dormant – so that only the surface is disturbed – begins to suffer from 'circulation problems'. Neurosis is the feeling of being cut off from your own powers.

A young farm labourer passed me. I suddenly understood what Traherne meant when he said that men looked to him like angels. Again, it was a matter of seeing through to the inward vitality, the essence—what Boehme called the 'signature'. I smiled at the farm labourer, and he smiled back and said: 'Mornin' sir.' I felt suddenly very happy.

And in fact this insight had often been confirmed by experience. I had frequently noted that I became accident-prone when I had allowed myself to become tired and discouraged, and that some instinct for avoiding accidents seemed to be aroused when I was feeling fully alive. I

It seemed to me that a solution must be found. Here, my natural optimism was to my advantage. For when I read Sartre or Camus or Graham Greene, I experienced a temperamental rejection of their pessimism. I suspected that their ultimate picture might be distorted by a certain self-pity or lack of discipline—or, in the case of Greene, by a certain congenital lack of vitality. I suspected that if the problem left them defeated, it was because they had not attacked it hard enough.

In the scales of the gigantic balance-pan in Nijinsky's brain, the world's misery bulked heavy on one side. But the other? First, there was dancing, the rhythmic, violent Dionysian upsurge of the vital energies; while he could dance regularly, every day, and restore contact with the vital, instinctive parts of his own being, Nijinsky could not go insane. Sanity lay in creation.

I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City.

You know how we're thinking about food these days, less in terms of carbs and calories than in terms of color, vivacity, and life force? We can do the same with time. Then it's no longer about having enough of it but about infusing color and vivacity and life force into every moment. (279)

Pero es cierto que, al aplicar la logoterapia, el paciente ha de enfrentarse con el sentido de su vida y confrontar luego su conducta con ese sentido. Por consiguiente, se trata de una definición válida de la logoterapia, en cuanto el neurótico pretende eludir su responsabilidad vital; y despertar su conciencia al sentido de la vida es el fundamento para sobreponerse a la neurosis.

To say yes to life is not only meaningful under all circumstances--because life itself is--but it is also possible under all circumstances.

If you're not busy living, you're dying.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.

Oh, I am in love with life!

There is nothing staid, nothing settled, in this universe. All is rippling, all is dancing; all is quickness and triumph.

We insist, it seems, on living.

The streets seemed to chafe the very air...and lift its leaves hotly, brilliantly, on waves of that divine vitality which Clarissa loved.

Though the wind is rough and blowing in their faces, those girls there, striding hand in hand, shouting out a song, seem to feel neither cold nor shame. They are hatless. They triumph.

Like the pulse of a perfect heart, life struck straight through the streets.

Youth so apt for pleasure that pleasure, one thought, must exist

She blazed. She kindled. Out of the night she burnt like a white star.

How could one leap on the back of life and wring its scruff?

But they beckoned; leaves were alive; trees were alive. And the leaves being connected by millions of fibres with his own body, there on the seat, fanned it up and down; when the branch stretched he , too, made that statement.

Far away a bell tolls, but not for death. There are bells that ring for life. A leaf falls, from joy. Oh, I am in love with life!

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