Quotes About Vitality

I've always believed that a dance evening energizes an audience, that an audience goes out feeling chemically stronger and more optimistic. This is what I understand about dance. And this is an important thing. We need this. Our culture needs it.

People talk about the brain weakening as it ages. Mine feels stronger.

It's very comforting to feel myself getting stronger.

For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom.

The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia?

Counterpoint is a component that gives real energy, and it is about optimism.

I'm really optimistic in the mornings.

If I want to run around a field when I'm 70, I would like to have that option.

Honestly, I just try to live right, get enough sleep, and drink a lot of water. I do drink a lot of water; I do live by that. And just eating good clean food... I do love all of it. But I do definitely try to eat better organic food.

The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.

Neighborhoods and communities are complex organisms that will be resilient only if they are healthy along a number of interrelated dimensions, much as a human body cannot be healthy without adequate air, water, rest, and food.

I understand that I'm not 20 anymore, but I feel great, like in my 20s. I don't know what it is, but in our generation, people last longer.

We all have to learn how to reengineer healthy living back into our lives.

Health is never going to go out of fashion.

My mind could keep going all day long. You give me a new body, and I could go for another 20 years out here, and do it well.

Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it.

It is important for the creative juices to find an outlet, otherwise they stagnate.

Being healthy is not just about building a body: it is a lifestyle that manifests itself in your general outlook. It makes you more positive and optimistic and increases your energy level.

I never really feel overwhelmed; I feel energized by what goes on in our day.

That means that everybody needs to have some capacity to devote to change. This is time that people dedicate to rethinking how their piece of the whole works, and how it ought to work. Once the change is under way, more time is required to practice new ways and to master new skills. That's the cost. The benefit is vitality and a firm grip on the future. Slack is the way you invest in change. Slack represents operational capacity sacrificed in the interests of long-term health.

human emotions are a bother, but we'd be bored stiff without them!

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

Well I don't know but I've been told, you never slow down, you never grow old.

Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.