quotes about Vitality
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Governments and politicians use the family as an indicator of the health and strength of social life. Politicians fear that any weakening of family life will in some way sap the vitality of national life.... The family is also important to businessmen. It is one of the major purchasing groups of our consumer society.
-- Adrian Wilson -
I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality
-- Al Jardine -
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
-- Alan Perlis -
Where there had been only fearful emptiness or equally frightening grandiose fanÂtasies, an unexpected wealth of vitality is now discovered. This is not a homecoming, since this home has never before existed. It is the creation of home.
-- Alice Miller -
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The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.
-- Andrew SolomonSource : "Faces of Depression: Andrew Solomon". PBS interview, www.pbs.org.
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I found myself losing interest in almost everything, I didn't want to do any of the things I had previously wanted to do and I didn't know why. Everything there was to do seemed like too much work. The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.
-- Andrew Solomon -
Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy and spirit you possess or takes away from it.
-- Ann WigmoreSource : Ann Wigmore (1984). “The Hippocrates Diet and Health Program”, p.165, Penguin
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The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."
-- Billy Joel -
In art, vitality is the chaotic initial state; beauty is the cosmic final state.
-- Chairil Anwar -
Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.
-- Charles H. Percy -
You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.
-- Charles IvesSource : Charles Ives (2004). “129 Songs”, p.30, A-R Editions, Inc.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Enthusiasm is that ingredient of vitality mixed with a firm belief in what you are doing that ensures the success of any project you undertake.
-- Dale Carnegie -
For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence of human language is inseparable from the coherence of the surrounding ecology, from the expressive vitality of the more-than-human terrain. It is the animate earth that speaks; human speech is but a part of that vaster discourse.
-- David AbramSource : David Abram (2012). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World”, p.179, Vintage
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One of the things I find about getting older is that I seem to get louder, more voluble; that I constantly have to walk around repressing my vitality.
-- David Hare -
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.
-- David Hilbert -
What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep.
-- David Whyte -
The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears
-- David WhyteSource : David Whyte (2007). “The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America”, p.29, Crown Business
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A whole roomful of Jews is like a charged battery. The vitality sparks seem to fly, and frequently the result is a short circuit.
-- Edna Ferber -
The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.
-- Edward T. Hall -
Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin -
The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him
-- Elizabeth George SpeareSource : Elizabeth George Speare (1961). “The bronze bow”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
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Color does to me what the touch of the earth did to the giant Antaeus - sends new life, vitality, courage, initiative surging through me. Sometime the scientists will discover that color is a renewer of life.
-- Emilie Loring -
When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going, you have such vitality to do things, big things, because love is goosing you all the time.
-- Fanny Brice -
For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.
-- Francoise SaganSource : FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”
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I was a weird kid. I shouldve been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I dont know why Im not gay. I listen to a lot of jazz and world music, like African or Cuban music. Something that has vitality to it. A lot of the American stuff just feeds on itself.
-- Frank Oz -
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One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to speak, which has only preserved in a formal and abstract form what mythology contains in living and concrete form.
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling -
Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.
-- George Edward Woodberry -
Working outdoors or from life puts you in direct contact with the life force, not just the light and the landscape, but also the vitality of the world around you.
-- George L. Carlson -
There's no possibility for vitality in the church without fidelity to the gospels. If you look at the Churches throughout the world, throughout the Western world, where radical reform has been attempted, the Church has collapsed and almost disappeared. The vitality in the Church, the young people who are here in their tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands possibly, young people who belong, who adhere strongly to the central tradition of Christ and the Church.
-- George PellSource : Source: www.sbs.com.au
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Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.
-- George Santayana -
The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite of everything there is still quality to life.
-- Gyorgy Kepes -
Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.
-- Hamilton Wright MabieSource : Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “Essays in Literary Interpretation”
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When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.
-- Harold Evans -
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Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.
-- Harrison Ford -
I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality and energy and interest.
-- Jacqueline Bisset -
It is our uniqueness that gives freshness and vitality to a relationship.
-- James Dobson -
I will be unneeded, and gladly so, when you realize that the vitality and reinforcement and joy are your own, and rise from the fountain of your own beings; when you realize that you do not need me for protection, for there is nothing you need protect yourself against.
-- Jane Roberts -
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When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation to it suffers.
-- Jerry Uelsmann -
I'm hoping the students will hear their own voices actually, so it's not that they're looking for things they already know, they're looking to discover things they don't know. I would characterize it as the vitality of thought, the versatility of thinking.
-- Jill Johnson -
Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.
-- John French Sloan -
A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.
-- John French Sloan -
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Education is critical not only to each one of us individually, but also to build the economic vitality of our state.
-- John Hoeven -
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.
-- John RuskinSource : John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.184, University of Virginia Press
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The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive it may be in itself, it must yet be of inferior kind, and tend to deeper inferiority, unless it has clearly one of these main objects, either to state a true thing, or to adorn a serviceable one.
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But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.
-- John T. Flynn -
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Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.
-- Jon Kabat-Zinn -
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset -
Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates  the spirit.
-- Joseph PilatesSource : Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated
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The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence.
-- Juan GoytisoloSource : "Scourge of the new Spain" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2000.
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Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
-- Leonardo da Vinci -
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith -
I shall always rebel against any attempt to reduce a human being to a kind of mannequin, whose deeds and questions would be comprehensible like the deeds and gestures of monarchs recorded day after day in official communiques. Six months of a life cannot catalogue the vitality, the activity of an individual; only death stops development and then, what is important is the overall meaning of a life, not the details of that life, edifying to some, scandalous to others.
-- Louis Aragon -
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As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.
-- Louis BromfieldSource : Louis Bromfield (1946). “A Few Brass Tacks”
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even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.
-- Mabel Osgood WrightSource : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”
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with the spring a sort of inspiration is wakened in the most prosaic of us. The same spirit of change that thrills the saplings with fresh vitality sends through human veins a creeping ecstasy of new life.
-- Marah Ellis Ryan -
The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality.
-- Maria Montessori -
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The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.
-- Max Beerbohm -
My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
-- Nancy Astor -
Go for vitality, not comfort.
-- Nicholas LoreSource : Nicholas Lore (2012). “The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success”, p.30, Simon and Schuster
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We are all hoping that he will recover his legendary vitality as quickly as possible, ... Chi-rac! Chi-rac!
-- Nicolas Sarkozy -
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I knew that to find and to feel Yoav again would be terribly painful, because of what had become of him, and because of what I knew he could ignite in me, a vitality that was excruciating because like a flare it lit up the emptiness inside me and exposed what I always secretly knew about myself: how much time I'd spent being only partly alive, and how easily I'd accepted a lesser life.
-- Nicole Krauss -
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.
-- Oscar Wilde -
I'm more convinced each day of the complete unreality of the material world and the supreme vitality of the invisible world of spirit.
-- Paul Russo -
The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.
-- Paul Tillich -
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Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.
-- Paula Rego -
He who sees age on the outside of things is doomed to underestimate the vitality of raisins.
-- Philip K. Jason -
Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.
-- Raymond Chandler -
If we open up to our vitality and to the sense of urgency that flows within us ... we will have the pleasure of experiencing ourselves living and working in cooperation with the deepest forces of life.
-- Rick Jarow -
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To say it again, eternal life is less about a kind of time that starts when we die, and more about a quality and vitality of life now in connection to God. Eternal life doesn't start when we die; it starts now. It's not about a life that begins at death; it's about experiencing the kind of life now that can endure and survive even death.
-- Rob Bell -
When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.
-- Robert Silverberg -
The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.
-- Roberto Unger -
As with everything in nature, if your life isn’t supported by a grounded source of energy, it will wither and lose its vitality.
-- Sonia Choquette -
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The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
-- Wallace Stevens -
While combat efficiency is a primary function of Shaolin Kung Fu, a more immediate and useful benefit in our law-abiding society is attaining radiant health and vitality.
-- Wong Kiew KitSource : Wong Kiew Kit (2002). “The Art of Shaolin Kung Fu: The Secrets of Kung Fu for Self-Defense, Health, and Enlightenment”, p.17, Tuttle Publishing
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Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesnt have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
-- Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
Experimental music scores are enigmatic, opaque, demanding, irritating, humorous, childlike; the best, like Cardew's Treatise, are also inspiring, giving rise, on occasion, to a music of vitality, intelligence and elegance.
-- John Tilbury -
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Only work with projects you love. That will make your creativity blend with your vitality, and the project will create itself.
-- Lisa Langseth -
To exist (in mathematics), said Henri Poincaré, is to be free from contradiction. But mere existence does not guarantee survival. To survive in mathematics requires a kind of vitality that cannot be described in purely logical terms.
-- Mark Kac -
I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.
-- Matthew Specktor -
When you have a lot of construction going on, it sends a message of vitality that builds up consumer confidence. It gets people to spend money when they see that energy, that things are happening.
-- Mick Cornett -
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Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more evident even as its vitality and spontaneity are drained from it.
-- Barry N. Malzberg -
I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.
-- Bradford CoxSource : Source: www.buzzfeed.com
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As far as I'm concerned, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future. BMW, like no other brand, will still stand for vitality and driving pleasure in the future. But it will also represent efficiency and environmental friendliness.
-- Norbert ReithoferSource : Source: www.spiegel.de
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When you lose the gayborhoods, you lose the political power that comes when you're concentrated in precincts, and you also lose the cultural vitality.
-- Cleve JonesSource : Source: www.motherjones.com
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I have hope for the world, although it is ten minutes before Doomsday. Women all over the world are rising up and infusing the anti-nuclear and peace movements with a vitality and creativity never seen before.
-- Petra KellySource : Petra Karin Kelly (1984). “Fighting for Hope”, p.103, South End Press
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Health is a presence of a superior state of wellbeing, a vigor, a vitality, a pizzazz you have to work for every single day of your life.
-- Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz -
The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.
-- Ronald Syme -
Lust is the base of most physical ills, and like a tapeworm in the system, it feeds on our best energies and vitality.
-- James Ussher -