Quotes About Vitality

Where there had only been fearful emptiness Ã¢â'¬Â¦ there is now unfolding a wealth of vitality. This is not a homecoming since this home had never before existed. It is the discovery of home. —ALICE MILLER

It was a strange staging for death, for the woman on the high bed was dying. Slowly, fighting every inch of the way with a grim tenacity, but indubitably dying. Her vital ardour had sunk below the mark from which it could rise again, and was now ebbing as water runs from a little crack in a pitcher.

Connecting always requires energy.

Passion gives you energy.

And walking back from the river I remember the galling loneliness of my adolescence, from which I do not seem to have completely escaped. It is the sense of the voyeur, the lonely, lonely boy with no role in life but to peer in at the lighted windows of other people's contentment and vitality. It seems comical -- farcical -- that, having been treated so generously, I should be struck with this image of a kid in the rain walking along the road shoulders of East Milton.

Death is inevitable. Our fear of it makes us play safe, blocks out emotion. It's a losing game. Without passion you are already dead.

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced & discharged & used up in order to exist at all.

If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you...then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.

Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.

The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.

It is not death that I'm apparently now succumbing to, but the rapid diminishment of lifeforce from this body of mine.

Cada suspiro es como un sorbo de vida del que uno se deshace.

That kind of imagination is why we're not dead.

To inspire is to give life. To expire is to give death.

...Death, " she said, as her hand dropped away, " is how you know you were alive in the first place.

To understand how to be healthy, a person must first comprehend sickness, disease and death.

Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive.

Make it like a sunflower.

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.

It's vital to understand that while you are alive, there is no end to desire, since the seed of your every thought and your every action is a desire.

The two things that matter are the desire, and being healthy enough to do it. Everything else to me is a non-issue.

Diet is the essential key to all successful healing. Without a proper balanced diet, the effectiveness of herbal treatment is very limited.

There are other things that contribute to health besides a balanced diet. There are fresh air and sunlight and lack of nervous tension.