Quotes about Vitality

There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us.

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

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring about something in this country which is more vital here than anywhere else, because we have the chance to make a democracy that will be a real democracy.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

We've all had saints in our lives, by which I mean not plaster saints, not moral exemplars, not people setting for us a kind of suffocating good example, but I mean saints in the sense of life givers. People through knowing whom we become more alive.

Physical strength in a woman - that's what I am.

Pneuma is the power—the vital breath—that animates animals and humans. It is, in Dylan Thomas's phrase, "the force that through the green fuse drives the flower," and is present even in lifeless materials like stone or metal as the energy that holds the object together—the

What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?

Death makes me hungry. Maybe it's because I've been emptied; or maybe it's the body's way of seeing to it that I remain alive, continue to repeat its bedrock prayer: I am, I am. I am, still.

A leader's most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.