Quotes about Vitality

Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change... —Audre Lorde, born #otd

A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry.

One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

To say it again, eternal life is less about a kind of time that starts when we die, and more about a quality and vitality of life now in connection to God. Eternal life doesn't start when we die; it starts now. It's not about a life that begins at death; it's about experiencing the kind of life now that can endure and survive even death.

But the sparkle had come back to her eyes and a bit of the old ginger to her voice

The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and his work become the one and only thing that is vital between us. We have one another only through Christ, but through Christ we do have one another, wholly, and for all eternity.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.