Quotes About Vitality

Out here the wild things are healthy, the old trees whose roots find sustenance far below the ill-used layer of topsoil, the occasional rosebush gone to green thicket and thorns, the unstoppable kudzu. It is as if they have decided to take back the land for their own.

il più intenso e semplice dei piaceri concessi ai viventi, quello di restaurare la propria tensione osmotica.

Did he just say--? Yes, Claire said, smiling. Yes, he did. Whoa. Guess I'd better stay alive, then.

Let's say that it belong to me as much as it belongs to anyone alive today. If I am, strictly speaking, living. The old word was undead, you know, but aren't all living things undead. I dislike imprecision.

Breath, Myrnin said. "I'm not much for it myself, but I hear it's quite good for humans. -Myrnin.

A party, like the human body, will fall into rigor mortis without proper circulation.

Yet the body insists on the struggle for life. Why?

life's about living and being happy, not about dying.

Trying to discern what was different about them, she decided it was a new sense of life. They seemed to shimmer with it.

Perhaps the current state of my health should have raised a bright red caution flag, but instead it fired me up. I wanted to do what I wanted. I didn't care if hefting plywood and climbing ladders weren't on my doctor's recommended list of activities, or if I was foolhardy to think I could lift a fifty-pound roll of tar paper into and then out of my car. I was going to do it because it sounded like a blast, like the best possible way to have fun.

The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive.

What a pair of lungs!

His heart stopped. His lungs. His brain. The circumnavigation of his blood.

When taking care of a horse, what one must do is remove everything that is harmful to the horse in order to bring out the horse's own natural vitality. The way to rule the empire is similar.

Men and women who live all their lives in centrally heated homes and offices, and go in the car to post a letter and collect the children from school, and have labour-saving devices for every conceivable purpose (including electric tooth-brushes and carving-knives)—such people have become so sensually unaware and so unresponsive to physical challenges that they are only half-alive.

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.

Will this be the end of it?' 'There is never an end to such things,' he said quietly. 'But we are alive. And that is good.

You are alive. You are whole. All is well.

the cold was somehow touched with life, a freshness moving through the icy air.

There is never an end to such things," he said quietly. "But we are alive. And that is good.

Luceo non uro; I shine, not burn.

After I lost some weight and got really healthy, I got more athletic and healthy every year, more confident every year.

I have always been attracted to songs that make me want to dance.

I've always been attracted to action stuff.