Active Life Quotes

“At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment.”
― Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers

“Rest is not the answer
Activity and therapy help healing most”
― Joerg Teichmann

“I can only run the rate in which my heart beats.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“It's not enough that i know all that's in me, everyone else must know it, too: Pierre, and that girl who wanted to fly into the sky, everyone must know me, so that my life is not only for myself; so that they don't live like that girl, independently of my life, but so that it is reflected in everyone, and they all live together with me!”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Her genius, as has before been mentioned, is a genius for living, for being vital. Many people merely exist, are kept alive by others, or continue to vegetate because the persistence action of normal function will allow of their doing no less. Bettina Vanderpoel had lived vividly and in the midst of a self-created atmosphere of action from her first hour. It was not possible for her to be one of the horde of mere spectators where soever she moved there was some occult stirring of the mental and even physical air. Her pulses beat too strongly, her blood ran too fast to allow of inaction of mind of body.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Shuttle

“You will boost your productivity with active exercise.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Youthful exuberance is splendid.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Dancing is my daily exercise.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“We must participate in this world that has birthed us. We must not sit around in rawhide rocking chairs with our heads sunk in grief, while the waters trickle past. We must join the waters.”
― Rick Bass, The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness: Three Lyrical Short Stories of Texas, Appalachia, and the Untamed American West

“Sports are about more than just winning or losing. They're about building character and becoming a better person.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“I'm retired, not tired!”
― James Hauenstein, No Return Address

“Be slow, but don't sit idle.”
― Anand Kumar Yadav

“If the contemplative practices of meditation are ultimately for active life, then long-term monastic retreat from active life might not be the best way to deepen its effects, at least not always or for everyone.”
― Dale S. Wright, Living Skillfully: Buddhist Philosophy of Life from the Vimalakirti Sutra

“An active life has a way of changing your mind and revolutionizing your perspective.”
― Carlos Wallace, Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free