Quotes About Vitality

I just don't feel like I'm old. I still feel like I've got a lot of years, a lot to give in this game, and I'm able to do it because I love to work.

As an older lineman, if you start to sit around, you get stiff. You get tired. Things start to set in.

Having fun is fantastic, and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work, or else it's going to feel stiff.

I'm still healthy as can be.

I wanted a physical kick in the music. I wanted it to be stimulating.

I love being around kids. I couldn't figure out why all these 70-year-olds wanted to hang out with me when I was 27. Now I understand, and I'm trying to steal their energy from them like they stole from me at the time.

But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.

Retirement has never entered my mind for one moment because I don't feel the age I am - and I don't act it, and I don't speak like it. When God calls me, that's when I stop. Until then, I'm going to just keep going.

I've always been a late bloomer, so I never feel like, 'Oh, I'm gettin' older; I guess everything is gonna stop.' I'm the opposite: 'Oh, I'm just getting started.'

I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.

The health of the body feeds the health of the mind. – Master Ter'cay

you're never more alive than when you're almost dead.

Ashok is composed largely of enthusiasm.

We're toasting the chlorophyll rising in our bodies, catching the energy from the universe. Nobody's ever been young like we are right at this moment.

No sé por qué debería explicar lo que hago. ¿Por qué no puedo hacer exactamente lo que estoy haciendo? Es magnífico estar afuera en la madrugada, antes de que salga el sol. Te da la sensación de estar súper vivo. Eres cómplice de un secreto que toda esa gente aburrida y dormida no conoce. A diferencia de ellos, tú estás alerta y consciente de existir justo aquí, en este preciso momento entre lo que sucedió y lo que sucederá.

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive." –Joseph Campbell

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'Wow! What a Ride!'"—Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955–1967

Boner or No Boner? "Men, if you wake up and you don't have a boner, there's a problem. Yes or no? One or zero? Boner, no boner?

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive."–Joseph Campbell American mythologist and writer, known for The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane.

You Say "Health Is #1" . . . But Is It Really?

Interest and Energy Are Cyclical.