#vitality

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#enough #few #imperious #instincts #make

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

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

— Edith Södergran

#inspiration #philosophy #vitality #inspirational

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

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. ↗

— Martha Graham

#because #energy #expression #force #into

So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity. ↗

— Jack LaLanne

#any #around #atrophy #day #energy

A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person’s unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment. ↗

— H.E. Davey

#courage #judgment #ki #life-force #meditation

No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy. ↗

— John Ruskin

#effort #expression #imperfection #judgment #mercy

A young woman forced to keep drunks supplied with beer and siblings with clean underwear -instead of being allowed to pursue "something higher"- stores up great reserves of vitality, a vitality never dreamed of by university students yawning over their books. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#vitality #dreams