#vitality

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. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#account #claim #enables #enemy #essence

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#activity #affords #anyone #else #going

My passion is New York and the vitality that makes it special. ↗

— Michael Musto

#new #new york #passion #special #vitality

I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#certainly #everywhere #going #hope #i

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

— Gavin Newsom

#cultural #essential #francisco #part #recognize

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life. ↗

— John French Sloan

#condemned #eager #energy #every #good

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#art #fury #movement #must #new

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance. ↗

— Charles Ives

#cannot #corner #hope #off #reality

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

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#animal #crushes #dignity #even #foot