Exuberance Quotes

• Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

  Anne Sexton

  Saint, Moderation, Poet

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

  Yoko Ono

  Summer, Perseverance, Gratitude

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• I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Short Life, Waste, Decor

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• Exuberance is beauty.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Beauty, Gratitude

  William Blake (2017). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, p.11, Litres

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• You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world

  Sheilah Graham Westbrook

  Motivational, Inspiring, Goal

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• Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

  David Mamet

  Age, Youth, Beats

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• Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring: in the severe abstinence of grey winter: in the living flesh that animates our bodily frame: in the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright: in living, in the exercise of all our powers: in the acquisition of knowledge. . . Joy is there everywhere.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Spring, Winter, Exercise

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.64, Rabindranath Tagore

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• As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.

  Lewis Thomas

  Health, People, Dying

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Real happiness comes from having an unassailable connection to the deep state of unbounded awareness at our core. This state of being is our own inner joy that expresses the exuberance and wonder of being alive at this moment; it is our own self-luminous essence made conscious of itself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Real, Self, Essence

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• I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.

  Bob Black

  Travel, Adventure, Joy

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.

  John Grogan

  Loyalty, Dog, Heart

  John Grogan (2010). “Bad Dogs Have More Fun: Selected Writings on Family, Animals, and Life from the Philadelphia Inquirer”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?

  Alan Greenspan

  Memorable, Assets, Irrational

  Remarks at American Enterprise Institute dinner, Washington, D.C., 5 Dec. 1996

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• And let us remember too that life, in its exuberance, always succeeds in overflowing the narrow limits within which man thinks he can confine it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Men, Thinking, Limits

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• If you have a task to perform and are vitally interested in it, excited and challenged by it, and then you will exert maximum energy.
  But in the excitement, the pain of fatigue dissipates, and the exuberance of what you hope to achieve overcomes the weariness.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Pain, Overcoming

  "Jimmy Carter on Passion". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org.

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• Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.

  Mary Oliver

  Be Good

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.213, Penguin

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• I’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion.

  Anna Sui

  Fashion, Optimism, Feels

  "Spring 2010 Ready-to-Wear: Anna Sui" by Laird Borrelli-Persson, www.vogue.com. September 16, 2009.

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• Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Our minds must meditate on some object. According to what he thinks, a man can create an atmosphere of radiance, exuberance, buoyancy; and this brings joy. Or he can carry gloom with him. It is a matter of the habit of thought. We must build up our own life by our thoughts. There are many ways by which we can do this. Art, music, even manual work, all can bring ripening to the soul.

  Swami Paramananda

  Art, Men, Thinking

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• I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.

  Robert Wyatt

  Sports, Fashion, Thinking

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• I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

  Elia Kazan

  Voice, Secret, Hearing

  Elia Kazan (2011). “Elia Kazan: A Life”, p.278, Knopf

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• Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.

  Yoko Ono

  Summer, Time, Spring

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• Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however - that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Happiness, Luxury, Justice

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.292, Simon and Schuster

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• That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom - these are the traits of the frontier.

  Frederick Jackson Turner

  Powerful, Evil, Mind

  Frederick Jackson Turner (2012). “The Frontier in American History”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.

  John Chafee

  Motto, Should, Caution

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• A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sarcastic, Sophisticated, Egotistical

  Referring to Gladstone in a speech at a banquet in The Duke of Wellington's Riding School, Knightsbridge, 27 July 1878: 'The Times' 29 July 1878

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