#Vitality Quotes

“As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.”

“Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.”

“O, spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou!”

“Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can be myself. Let me feel you enter each limb bone by bone, that what died last night can be whole today. Why live some soberer way, and feel you ebbing out? I won't do it. Either give me enough wine or leave me alone, now that I know how it is to be with you in constant conversation.”

“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.”

“If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.”

“We're all unique and individual biochemically, but there are certain rules that if you violate them, you're going to have disease in the body. If you're aligned with them, you're going to have an abundance of energy and vitality and health.”

“Beauty without expression is boring.”

“If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.”

“[On her 101-year-old sister and herself, at 103:] We have a lot to do ... People don't understand this. They think we're sitting around in rocking chairs, which isn't at all true. Why, we don't even own a rocking chair.”

“Why should I be weary when every cell of my body is bursting with life?”

“Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.”

“Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin”

“To be awake is to be alive.”

“If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life.”

“I have heard a good many pretend that they are going to die; or that they have died, for aught that I know. Nonsense! I'll defy them to do it. They have n't got life enough in them.... Only half a dozen or so have died since the world began.”

“What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.”

“The most alive is the wildest.”

“Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.”

“Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?”

“But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?”

“For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich.”

“The influence of a vital being vitalizes.”

“The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves”

“We save the world by being alive ourselves.”

“We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.”

“We are most alive when we're in love.”

“An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.”

“Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.”

“Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and never rested from his labors, who grew fast and made infinite demands on life, would always find himself in a new country or wilderness, and surrounded by the raw material of life. He would be climbing over the prostrate stems of primitive forest trees.”

“Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.”

“Live a vital life. If you live well, you will earn well. If you live well, it will show in your face; it will show in the texture of your voice. There will be something unique and magical about you if you live well. It will infuse not only your personal life but also your business life. And it will give you a vitality nothing else can give.”

“Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.”

“He who breathes deepest lives most.”

“He lives most life whoever breathes most air.”

“No matter how long you live, die young.”

“The real feeling of youth comes when we actually think in the consciousness of youth and give the realization of the now to every thought.”