Quotes About Vitality

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

Sure I arn't a cabbage, that if you pull it out of the ground it must die.

Nineteen-year-old Ray Bradbury was rambunctious and so energetic that it made Leslyn tired to be in the same room with him; it was too much like having to manage a large and unruly puppy

The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm.

I could yet always feel that it was infinitely better to be than not to be. THE

Another reason for the spread of the script may simply have been the commercial vitality of the Aramaeans, who were to the deserts of the northern Levantine region what the Phoenicians were to the sea, trading particularly in copper, ivory, incense, and textiles of all descriptions. Whatever the reason, with each change of political dominance, from Assyrian to Babylonian, and from Babylonian to Persian, Aramaic only became more prominent.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

Sono giunto alla conclusione che siamo creature fatte di spirito, uno spirito che scorre dentro di noi come l'elettricità e può passare dall'uno all'altro. Fu questo ciò che senti scaturire dalla mano di mia madre, lo spirito del suo profondo anelito.

tribe. 'Your exuberance is matched only by

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

Akitchen in the morning: it can be a garden of the senses.

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out...

And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and her drawers of water? Is it because science flatters no courtier, mingles in no political strife? ... Can we behold unmoved the science of England, the vital principle of her arts, struggling for existence, the meek and unarmed victim of political strife? [Reviewing Charles Babbage's Book, Reflections on the Decline of Science in England (1830)]

Music isn't fragile.

Thomas Merton warns, "There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with reality."1 The truly spiritual life is not an escape from reality but a total commitment to it.

from the minute I saw your face, your round, light-filled face, with its beautiful, wise, pure forehead, with its roots of strong, dense hair, which I stupidly believed testified to your strong grip on life, and your broad, large, generous, dancing body – don't you dare erase even one of those adjectives – you were such medicine for me, such medicine for the dry bachelorhood that had closed in on me

but both are necessary for a creative, whole life. "Fire is spirit, water is vitality. Alchemists sometimes say that Buddhism starts with fire while Taoism starts with water."134

Elliston thought consistency less important than vitality and intelligence and passion.

The presence of the Holy Spirit brings life. His nearness is refreshing and restores the vitality of your soul.

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

the mountaineer's breakfast" (coffee and aspirin).

That our enthusiasms and passions are an important part of our personality and if you take them away you remove something very fundamental.

To be alive, Professor Sharif, means not being completely consistent.

He had stopped off at Mellqvist's coffee bar and so he drank two double espressos standing up. Not just to get rid of his tiredness. He thought a jolt of caffeine might help with his headache