Quotes About Vitality

She did not plan; she merely let herself go, and the overwhelming life in her did the rest.

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.

Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

I want excitement; and I don't care what form it takes or what I pay for it, so long as it makes my heart beat.

The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.

There was so much to read, for one thing, and so much fine health to be pulled down out of the young breath-giving air.

there was so much to read, for one thing, and so much fine health to be pulled down out of he young breath-giving air.

The values are changing utterly with each lesion of vitality; it has begun to appear that we can learn nothing from the past with which to face the future – so we cease to be impulsive, convincible men, interested in what is ethically true by fine margins, we substitute rules of conduct for ideas of integrity, we value safety above romance, we become, quite unconsciously, pragmatic.

You don't have to dance—just get out there on the floor and shake.

A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.

With the influence of the dress her personality had also undergone a change. The intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into impressive hauteur. Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment, and as she expanded the room grew smaller around her, until she seemed to be revolving on a noisy, creaking pivot through the smoky air.

This was plain as plain to Dick. He looked around, hoping his eye would catch on something, so that spirit instead of imagination could carry on for an hour. But there was nothing and after a moment he turned back to Collis. He has told Collis some of his current notions, and he was bored with his audience's short memory and lack of response. After half an hour of Collis he felt a distinct lesion of his own vitality.

Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

Y entonces, gracias al sol y a los increíbles brotes de hojas que nacían en los árboles, a la manera como crecen las cosas en las películas de cámara rápida, sentí la familiar convicción de que la vida estaba empezando de nuevo con el verano

Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

At first there would be an American cast to the congress, almost Rotarian in its forms and ceremonies, then the closer-knit European vitality would fight through, and finally the Americans would play their trump card, the announcement of colossal gifts and endowments, of great new plants and training schools, and in the presence of the figures the Europeans would blanch and walk timidly.

Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

Sé que desperté y que duermo todavía. Mi cuerpo antiguo, molido de tanto vivir, me dice que es muy temprano aún...

To move is to live, to express oneself is to endure.

The heat of the sun played incontrovertibly on every inch of me.

You know, every year has been fantastic for me, I'm still here, I'm still alive and it's been fantastic.

When you are gestating, you feel full of life, you feel full of joy, you feel full of fantasy, of stories.

You could have two completely different careers if you could stay healthy to 90. How fascinating that would be.