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Quotes About Vitality

A spiritual wound produced by a rending of the spiritual body is like a physical wound and, strange as it may seem, just as a deep wound may heal and its edges join, physical and spiritual wounds alike can yet heal completely only as the result of a vital force from within. Natasha's wound healed in that way. She thought her life was ended, but her love for her mother unexpectedly showed her that the essence of life—love—was still active within her. Love awoke and so did life.
~ Leo Tolstoy
he was as fresh as a big, green, waxy Dutch cucumber.
~ Leo Tolstoy
A rat is more alive than a turtle. A turtle is slow, cold, mechanical, nearly a toy, a shell with legs. Their deaths didn't count. But a white rat is quick and warm in its envelope of skin
~ Leonard Cohen
Prayer—the soul's blood. —GEORGE HERBERT
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses it purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I am not a victim. I am alive, wide awake and free from the numbness of apathy.
~ lerner rokelle
This feeling was their life, vitality locked deep in blood memory, and the people were strong, and the fifth world endured, and nothing was ever lost as long as the love remained.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
After all, being alive is my top priority...Leslie from Love & Hugs, Leslie
~ Leslie Sinclair
He felt like he was coming back to life too. Not that he'd been dead, just ... not quite alive. Something else.
~ Lev Grossman
Only when the increase of gifts moves with the gift may the accumulated wealth of our spirit continue to grow among us, so that each of us may enter, and be revived by, a vitality beyond his or her solitary powers.
~ Lewis Hyde
At the very least, our willingness to ban our emotional manipulation of others produces an extraordinary lightness and peace of mind. For what at first seems like surrender or inaction ends up restoring an almost forgotten sense of vitality and enthusiasm; All that scheming, it turns out, took up much more time and effort than we thought, energy which is now available for new and more satisfying interests.
~ Lewis M. Andrews
True urgent leadership doesn't drain people. It does the opposite. It energizes them. It makes them feel excited.
~ John P. Kotter
Society may shun bohemia, may put it down, may consider it useless and ineffective, but it is where everything cooks and boils and is created.
~ Donovan
Pain can be vitalising; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?
~ Sebastian Horsley
Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things.
~ Kathryn Lasky
There is nothing more valuable than health.
~ Sonu Sood
La gente empieza viendo una cosa y acaba viendo la contraria. Empieza amando y acaba odiando, o sintiendo indiferencia y después adorando. Nunca logramos estar seguros de qué va a sernos vital ni de a quién vamos a dar importancia. Nuestras convicciones son pasajeras y endebles, hasta las que consideramos más fuertes.También nuestros sentimientos.
~ Javier Marías
Without that passion and urge, there is a gradual oozing out of hope and vitality, a settling down on lower levels of existence, a slow merging into non-existence. We become prisoners of the past and some part of its immobility sticks to us.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
What about all the passion and pizzazz?" Letty smiled up at him, her hands moving on his shoulders. "I'm really enjoying that part, Joel." Joel laughed softly in the shadows. "Passion and pizzazz are our middle names, Letty my love. We've got enough to last us for the rest of our lives.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
All of her hormones had sat bolt upright and immediately launched into a stirring rendition of the Hallelujah Chorus.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
Four vital functions, as basic as the four elements: sexuality, sociality, ideation and glory. Or: pleasure, speech, thought and prestige. Being deprived of any of the four leads to stupor and death.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Once I got over feeling sick in the morning, I've been feeling good," Levela said. "Vigorous and strong. Although, lately, I get tired easily. I want to sleep late and take naps in the day, and sometimes if I stand for a long time, my back hurts." "Sounds about right, wouldn't you say," Velima said, smiling at her daughter. "Just the way you are supposed to feel.
~ Jean M. Auel
moss that is concentrating on being green.
~ Jeanette Winterson