Quotes About Vitality

[I]nspiration abounds when I skip and I do feel like a kid again. It frees the cobwebs, stimulates the soul, and enlightens the spirit.

You think food, dancing, and sex is the answer to everything. Everything worth anything, duh!

As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self had come into being. There was no shame in awe; there was exaltation. ("Cafe Endless: Spring Rain")

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

You wild, dear creatures!

I can't even count the twinges in my hinges, but as they say, if you don't wake up in the morning without something aching, you're dead.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia.

What we must remember above all in the education of our children is that their love of life should never weaken.

But what if you are already sixty, seventy years old, eighty, ninety? Let the thunder roll. You've got something to say. You are alive and you don't know for how long. (None of us really knows for how long.) No matter your age there is a sense of urgency, to make life immediate and relevant.

better a live bird in the jungle of the body than two stuffed birds on the library table.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

to appreciate the wonder of the universe, one must first remain alive.

mojo (moyo, a Kikongo word meaning something like "soul force").

The healthy individual has an appetite for fruitful activity and for a high quality of life. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

It's better to burn out than it is to rust.

Happiness is a treasure. It nourishes the soul and gives us energy and enthusiasm in life.

how to be a fully alive human being

To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

There are too many poems about death. Death, churchyards, wormy cadavers. Death is really a small part of life, and it's not the part that you want to concentrate on, because life is life and it's full of untold particulars.

He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.

all this vital music pouring out of him, all this new-found acceptance coming his way as well as money and acclaim, and all the guy wanted to do was sleep through the whole experience.

I'm not dead.

Complacency's like a disease to wild things.