#vital

The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#away #good #life #supreme #vitality

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

#vitality #wisdom #youth #age

If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond. ↗

— Edward Bond

#important #level #people #respond #vital

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses. ↗

— Edith Södergran

#inspiration #philosophy #vitality #inspirational

Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout. ↗

— Terry Savage

#brake #burn #burnout #car #certainly

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ↗

— Brooks Atkinson

#college education #education #five #knowledge #learn

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#being #between #clear #considering #deficiency

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex! ↗

— Kate Beckinsale

#avoided #could #had #humour #i

Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#ever #experiment #may #most #practical

When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms. ↗

— Harold Evans

#fell #first #freedoms #i #love