Quotes About Vitality

People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned.

I had never seen the joy he took in his own skill, the roaring vitality that was always just beneath the surface. Who was he if not miraculous and radiant? Who was he if not destined for fame?

IT WAS SPRING, AND WE WERE FIFTEEN.

mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.

He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.

this is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. this is what it means to be alive. (circle 385)

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

You are never too old to become younger!

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.

He had spent the winter existing, not living. Today, for the first time since the autumn, he felt glad to be alive.

Blah, blah, suck-all-the-fun-out-of-the-room talk

Wir müssen es auch riskieren, anfechtbare Dinge zu sagen, wenn dadurch nur lebenswichtige Fragen aufgerührt werden.

The common signs do not bestow either a hardy constitution or any unusual measure of will power. The vitality not being great, there is insufficient energy to sustain ambition or the urge to power.

Learn to start each day by smiling inwardly to your vital organs and thanking them for sustaining your life.

Sex essence is the source of all energy available for creative and thinking processes (shien).

The Taoists were especially concerned with how to maintain the body's systems to live a full, healthy, and extended life.

The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. You young people, full of vigour and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you.

to be old is to be alive, and the signs of age are also the signs of life.

Metabolism is oxygen. And oxygen comes from breathing.

A child who has been breathing since birth without ever noticing it does not know how essential the unheeded air that gently swells his chest is to his life. Does he happen to be suffocating in a convulsion, a bout of fever? Desperately straining his entire being, he struggles almost for his life, for his lost tranquillity, which he will regain only with the air from which he did not realize his tranquillity was inseparable.

Then his jealousy rejoiced at the discovery, as though that jealousy had had an independent existence, fiercely egotistical, gluttonous of every thing that would feed its vitality, even at the expense of Swann himself.

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.

We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun,—a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.