Vitality Quotes - Page 15

• I encourage you from the depths of my heart and being to know that you have the full capacity and the right to make changes that will enliven your awareness, raise the succulent joy in your heart, and experience the vitality that comes from living in balance.

  David Simon

  Heart, Joy, Balance

  57 Copy quote

• My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

  Nancy Astor

  Running, Vigor, Kind

  9 Copy quote

• A broken heart is not the same as sadness. Sadness occurs when the heart is stone cold and lifeless. On the contrary, there is an unbelievable amount of vitality in a broken heart.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Heart, Sadness, Broken

  Elizabeth Lesser (2010). “Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow”, p.115, Random House

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had refused to pay any attention to the moral laws upon which all our vitality and sanity depend: and so now I was reduced to the condition of a silly old woman, worrying about a lot of imaginary rules of health, standards of food-value, and a thousand minute details of conduct that were in themselves completely ridiculous and stupid, and yet which haunted me with vague and terrific sanctions. If I eat this, I may go out of my mind. If I do not eat that, I may die in the night.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Stupid, Silly

  5 Copy quote

• As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beautiful, Art, Years

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.56

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is our uniqueness that gives freshness and vitality to a relationship.

  James Dobson

  Unique, Giving, Freshness

  Dr. James Dobson (2012). “Love for a Lifetime: Building a Marriage That Will Go the Distance”, p.46, Multnomah

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.

  Gavin Newsom

  Art, Aquariums, San Francisco

  7 Copy quote

• The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer?

  James Hillman

  Death, Ideas, Effort

  James Hillman (2012). “The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life”, p.29, Ballantine Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The snapshooter’s pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection, which is exactly their appeal and their style. The picture isn’t straight. It isn’t done well. It isn’t composed. It isn’t thought out. And out of this imbalance, and out of this not knowing, and out of this real innocence toward the medium comes an enormous vitality and expression of life.

  Lisette Model

  Real, Expression, Knowing

  Elisabeth Sussman, Lisette Model (2001). “Lisette Model”, Phaidon Press

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Essentials, Diaries

  5 Copy quote

• Seeks to grow and improve oneself through creative activity, freely expressing one’s exuberant vitality, and through warm, supportive encouragement of others.

  Stephen Arroyo

  Encouragement, Creative, Supportive

  Stephen Arroyo, Jerilynn Marshall (1989). “Chart Interpretation Handbook: Guidelines for Understanding the Essentials of the Birth Chart”, p.36, Dubois Publishing

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly you mean what you mean. But if you have vitality enough of knowing
  enough of what you mean, somebody and sometime and sometimes a great many will have to realize that you know what you mean and so they will agree that you mean what you know, what you know
  you mean, which is as near as anybody can come to understanding any one.

  Gertrude Stein

  Mean, Knowing, Understanding

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.5415, Delphi Classics

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.

  John French Sloan

  Drawing, Faults, Virtue

  7 Copy quote

• The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Pain, Pressure

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Women, Blind, Creation

  'Man and Superman' (1903) act 1

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.

  Alistair Cooke

  Country, Race, America

  14 Copy quote

• Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity.

  Viola Spolin

  Creativity, Play, Mind

  90 Copy quote

• Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Spring, Men, Long

  7 Copy quote

• Research is the live heart of the scientific life ... Greatness of position, respect for past accomplishments, the Nobel Prize itself -- none of these can compensate for the loss of vitality only research provides.

  Vivian Gornick

  Heart, Loss, Past

  Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.27, The Feminist Press at CUNY

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in.

  Muriel Barbery

  Art, Support, Requirements

  5 Copy quote

• With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence -- the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality -- to perfection.

  Damian Pettigrew

  Uplifting, Running, Essence

  The Los Angeles Times, April 2003.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Elvis was a symbol of the country's vitality, rebelliousness, and good humor.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Good Humor, Symbols

  4 Copy quote

• For the growing number of people seeking to approach the ideas of Gurdjieff, Toward Awakening by Jean Vaysse offers reliable guidance, as well as evidence of the continuing vitality of this remarkable teaching. It may be counted as among the small handful of books that communicate something of what Gurdjieff brought.

  Jacob Needleman

  Book, Teaching, Ideas

  20 Copy quote

• 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 Wright

  Morning, Spring, Plant Life

  Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Color, Giants, Doe

  6 Copy quote