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Vitality Quotes

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Susan Sontag
“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
Susan Sontag

Edith Södergran
“The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”
Edith Södergran

“If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.”
Matt D. Miller

Joseph Campbell
“We must be willing to get rid of
the life we’ve planned, so as to have
the life that is waiting for us.

The old skin has to be shed
before the new one can come.

If we fix on the old, we get stuck.
When we hang onto any form,
we are in danger of putrefaction.

Hell is life drying up.”
Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Ogwo David Emenike
“Love springs from the inside. It is the immortal surge of passion, excitement, energy, power, strength, prosperity, recognition, respect, desire, determination, enthusiasm, confidence, courage, and vitality, that nourishes, extends and protects. It possesses an external objective - life.”
Ogwo David Emenike

John Steinbeck
“Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them.”
John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

John Ruskin
“No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.”
John Ruskin

“A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person’s unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.”
H.E. Davey, Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation

Suman Pokhrel
“Let’s do something more than merely live.”
Suman Pokhrel

Raymond Chandler
“Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality; there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.”
Raymond Chandler, The Simple Art of Murder

E.L. Doctorow
“I watched bulls bred to cows, watched mares foal, I saw life come from the egg and the multiplicative wonders of mudholes and ponds, the jell and slime of life shimmering in gravid expectation. Everywhere I looked, life sprang from something not life, insects unfolded from sacs on the surface of still waters and were instantly on prowl for their dinner, everything that came into being knew at once what to do and did it, unastonished that it was what it was, unimpressed by where it was, the great earth heaving up bloodied newborns from every pore, every cell, bearing the variousness of itself from every conceivable substance which it contained in itself, sprouting life that flew or waved in the wind or blew from the mountains or stuck to the damp black underside of rocks, or swam or suckled or bellowed or silently separated in two.”
E.L. Doctorow, Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Stories

Thorbjörg Hafsteinsdottir
“If you want more joy in your daily life, smile at the people you meet in the street, the woman sitting beside you on the bus or standing next to you in the queue at the airport, the waiter who brings your food, your colleagues or your employer. There’s a great chance they’ll smile back.”
Thorbjörg Hafsteinsdottir, 10 Years Younger in 10 Weeks

Milan Kundera
“A young woman forced to keep drunks supplied with beer and siblings with clean underwear -instead of being allowed to pursue "something higher"- stores up great reserves of vitality, a vitality never dreamed of by university students yawning over their books.”
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Thorbjörg Hafsteinsdottir
“Words are like food. They contain information that either releases and liberates and creates possibilities and development or locks you into unhealthy patterns you can’t change.”
Thorbjörg Hafsteinsdottir, 10 Years Younger in 10 Weeks

Robert Penn Warren
“We never know what we have lost, or what we have found.
We are only ourselves, and that promise.
Continue to walk in the world. Yes, love it!”
Robert Penn Warren

Kim Stanley Robinson
“The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.”
Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars

Gift Gugu Mona
“Think of destiny. Think of vitality. Think of prosperity. Think of longevity. Life requires you to think like royalty.”
Gift Gugu Mona, The Daily Dose of Motivational Quotes

Master Del Pe
“By using the faculties of the mind constantly, it is being exercised to develop mental powers and stamina. When the mind is not used for a long period or stretched regularly with bigger ideas and new concepts, it starts to crystallize and atrophy.”
Master Del Pe

Master Del Pe
“Will-power cannot exist without high levels of sustained vitality. Vitality is one of the key share qualities of super-achievers.”
Master Del Pe

Master Del Pe
“When your mind is honed as a powerful integrated tool, regulated by the conscience of your heart and the force of your will-power and vitality to initiate action and finish what you start, you are on the road to total success and fulfillment.”
Master Del Pe

Nina MacLaughlin
“We were so alive together.”
Nina MacLaughlin, Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung

Carol L. Monson
“Life is a journey from birth to death, hopefully with a lot of good and happy times in between.”
Carol L. Monson, Aging Optimally: The Workbook - Essential Tools for Healing Pain of Body, Mind, and Spirit

Richard Jefferies
“It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.”
Richard Jefferies, The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography

Jeff VanderMeer
“It is all alive. In me.”
Jeff VanderMeer, Borne

“We are immortal for as long as we live.”
Rick Klaus Theis

Laurence Galian
“Reich’s therapy aimed to release these blocks through breathwork, body percussion, and orgasmic discharge, restoring natural vitality.”
Laurence Galian, Crossing the Forbidden Highway: The Untold Story of Orgone, Body Therapy, and Suppressed Emotion

Ken Breniman
“By stepping out of our mental and physical cages, we can rediscover the joy, creativity, and vitality that come from living as nature intended.”
Ken Breniman, Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction

Michael Bassey Johnson
“You hardly know how boredom feels when you wake up every day to live for something that you truly love.”
Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions

“Health is a balance of body, mind, and spirit. Physical activity, mental clarity, and emotional well-being work together to create vitality. Neglecting one aspect can affect the others, so holistic care is essential.”
Shivanshu K. Srivastava

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