Quotes About Vitality

Vitality directly reflects eudaimonia—the inherent fulfillment produced by virtuecongruent activity—and reminds us that fulfillment is not an abstract judgment but an experienced psychological state. Vitality is how self-actualization feels. Vitality is a way to describe the engagement and absorption of flow.

Ryan and Frederick (1997) showed that in a population suffering from debilitating pain, pain level per se did not detract from vitality. Instead, pain fright was negatively associated with vitality, as was attending treatment for external as opposed to internal reasons. Some of the factors that may influence one's sense of vitality and contribute to its resilience are one's feelings of personal causation, optimism, and perceptions of social support.

If I can laugh, I can live.

As is so often the case, shapings of history designed to bring out lost sources of vitality call upon fictions of ethnicity or race as their medium.

For he counteracts the Devil, who is Death, by brisking about the life.

For there is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest. For there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.

Ik ben niet bevreesd, noch voor de ouderdom noch voor de dood, maar berusting is me schrikbeeld. Nooit zou ik aan de oevers waar braafheid en gezapigheid wonen, willen aanleggen. Ik ben nu vijfentachtig, ik schrijf nog steeds en ik zou nog tot liefhebben in staat zijn.

I am not an intellectual, I write with my body. And what I write is a moist fog.

I am obscure to myself. I let myself happen. I unfold only in the now. I am rudely alive.

Esta é a vida vista pela vida. Posso não ter sentido mas é a mesma falta de sentido que tem a veia que pulsa.

I had reached nothingness, and the nothingness was live and moist.

In no sense an intellectual, I write with my body.

Queria tanto morrer de saúde. Como quem explode. Éclate é melhor: j'éclate.

I, alive and glimmering like the instants, spark and go out, alight and go out, spark and go out.

from any struggle or rest I will rise up as strong and beautiful as a young horse.

I find it hard to believe that I shall die. Because I'm bubbling in cold freshness. My life will be very long because each instant is. I get the feeling I'm about to be born and can't.

Entonces se escuchan los grillos mojados. La luz del miligramo no altera la oscuridad. Pues la oscuridad no es iluminable, la oscuridad es un modo de ser: la oscuridad es el nudo vital de la oscuridad, y nunca se toca en el nudo vital de una cosa.

because our living matter is greater than we are

Because a world fully alive has the power of a Hell.

O que seria então aquela sensação de força contida, pronta para rebentar em violência, aquela sede de empregá-la de olhos fechados, inteira, com a segurança irrefletida de uma fera? Não era no mal apenas que alguém podia respirar sem medo, aceitando o ar e os pulmões? Nem o prazer me daria tanto prazer quanto o mal, pensava ela surpreendida. Sentia dentro de si um animal perfeito, cheio de inconsequências, de egoísmo e vitalidade.

Estar vivo é uma grossa indiferença irradiante.

Escucha superficialmente lo que digo y de la falta de sentido nacerá un sentido, como en mí nace inexplicablemente una vida alta y leve. La densa selva de palabras envuelve sólidamente lo que siento y vivo, y transforma todo lo que soy en algo mío que está fuera de mí. La naturaleza es envolvente; me cubre y es sexualmente viva, sólo estoy: viva. También estoy truculentamente viva, y lamo mi hocico como el tigre después de haber devorado el veneno.

He hablado mucho sobre la muerte. Pero voy a hablarte ahora sobre el soplo de vida. Cuando uno ya no respira se le hace la respiración boca a boca; se pega la boca a la boca del otro y se respira. Y el otro empieza a respirar otra vez. Este intercambio de respiración es una de las cosas más bellas que he oído contar de la vida. En realidad la belleza de este boca a boca me está deslumbrando.

If I had to define life in a word, it would be: Life is creation.