Quotes About Vitality

why evil is so powerful is that it's hideously vital and robust and usually impossible to look away from.

Going without food or water will kill the body, but the lack of relationship will kill the mind and spirit.

But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.

This is the power of a kiss: It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life.

El humor es tu brújula y tu escudo. Puedes afilarlo para convertirlo en un arma o arrancarle hebras para tejerte una colcha mullida. No se puede subsistir a base de humor, pero sin él, tampoco.

From behind the wheel, I learn the difference between a eulogy and an elegy, and discover which is more vital, in life and in death.

It is a mistake to think of the body as a vessel. It is as active as any mind, as any soul. And the more you give yourself to it, the harder your life will be.

He is doing it because he feels alive. [...] It is the ultimate buoy against drowning. It is the ever-saving grace.

He is tired, but he's free. He is living, because he's in motion.

There's an electricity in his eyes. Power. Light.

Lo único que sé es que quiero algo auténtico. Sé que soy joven y que «auténtico» no significa «para siempre», [...] pero quiero sentir que la vida importa.

but the creative juices dry up if they're not kept in circulation.

Because all living things are connected on vibrational energy levels, our basic emotional state is picked up and reacted to by all life forms around us. It is well known that animals can instantly read a person's basic emotional state. There are experiments demonstrating that even the growth of bacteria is affected by human emotions, and that plants register measurable reactions to our emotional state (Backster, 2003).

One day I'll wish I had a recording of Gretchen that I could play when I start feeling sorry for myself. I don't know that I've ever met a more enthusiastic person. Her key, I think, is that she's never stopped being interested in things. She's never decided that everything reminds her of something else, that everything worthwhile has been crossed off her list.

The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears

You know that the antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest? … The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.

Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

The feeling, a paradoxical mix of pulsing energy and profound peace

Trees were not hard, irritable things, but discreetly orgasmic beings moaning at a level too deep for our brutish ears. And flowers were quick explosive orgasms, like making love in the shower.

Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.

That's life. The celebration of the superfluous.

El hombre es la medicina que da vida a la mujer! Todas las mujeres tienen que consumirla.

Art is a way of survival.