Quotes About Vitality

May felt exhilarated around Bryant. He had always imagined that somewhere out there, away from suburban dullness, ardent young people were allowed to give freer rein to their thoughts. He felt as though he had arrived at a place he had always wanted to be.

It's not difficult for me to stay healthy. I like healthy food.

I live, which is the main point.

You have to keep on with a house, day after day, I think. Heating, cleaning, opening and closing windows, making sounds to fill the silence, cooking and washing up, laundering and polishing. As soon as you stop, there may as well never have been any life at all. A house dies as quickly as a body.

You rest, you rust.

The living being is above all a thoroughfare, and ... the essence of life is in the movement by which life is transmitted.

L'élan vital [the vital spirit].

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.

Joy is the vital air of the soul.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.

New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.

Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.

And see! she stirs!She starts—she moves—she seems to feelThe thrill of life along her keel.

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

as long as there is life, there is still happiness

I know fiery horses by their brand, and I know young people who are in love by their eyes

Only now did Pierre understand the full force of human vitality and the saving power of the shifting of attention that has been put in man, similar in steam engines, which releases the extra steam as soon as the pressure exceeds a certain norm.