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“Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.”

Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

“The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.”

Ifs Men Moral Walking Morality Ethics Consistent Thinker Consistently Vitality Stifling Mummy

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the community and its individuals, since otherwise this community is bound to perish. A people that were to honour falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long.”

People Needs Long Would Be Science Individual Community Religious Attitude Moral Murder Aim Bounds Honour Fraud Sanity Falsehood Vitality Promoting Defamation

Book:Ideas and Opinions

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in peace they lose in sensibility and significance.”

Ifs Men Eye Running Peace Loses Possibility Gains Harmony Surprise Significance Sensibility Vitality

Author:Lewis Mumford

“I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.”

Writing Home Answers Adventure Travel Funny Travel Vitality

Author:Ann Beattie

“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.”

Inspiration Seems Novel Land Sticks Contact Pregnancy Vitality Great Novels

Author:Winston Churchill

“To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude.”

Practice Conscious Shame Vitality Fortitude Benevolence Vigor

Author:Confucius

“We derive our vitality from our store of madness.”

Madness Stores Vitality

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“Many of us fear that we are not attractive or desirable enough to attract others. We have believed that we are "not enough." Today let's remind ourselves that we all receive our beauty, energy, and light from the same inexhaustible source. As we acknowledge this and begin to love and appreciate ourselves as we are, our channel opens and we have available to us the infinite vitality, beauty, and magnetism of the life force.”

Enough Light Today Energy Force Love You Source Appreciate Infinite Available Acknowledge Attractive Love Yourself Desirable Vitality Magnetism Energy And Light

Book:Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations

Source: Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations

“By ecstasy I mean inner joyousness, and by inner joyousness I mean those inspirational fires which burn within the consciousness of great geniuses, fires which give to them an inconquerable vitality of spirit which breaks down all barriers as wheat bends before the wind.”

Giving Mean Spirit Secret Consciousness Break Fire Wind Genius Barriers Ecstasy Breaking Down Vitality Wheat

Author:Walter Russell

“The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries, we must claim its promise. That's how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure-our forests and waterways, our crop lands and snow-capped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That's what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared.”

“Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations”

Source: Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy and Character and Opinion in the United States: And Character and Opinion in the United States

“Expressed gratitude encourages further giving; ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.”

Giving Spirit Gratitude Generosity Vitality Being Thankful Drains Giving In Ingratitude

Author:Michael Josephson

“Do not work self into a state of over-anxiety at the changes that will be found, or attempt to use up the strength and vitality ... Forget not the sources of thine inspiration.”

Self States Use Inspiration Spiritual Found Forget Source Anxiety Vitality

Author:Edgar Cayce

“Christianity is not a system of philosophy, nor a ritual, nor a code of laws; it is the impartation of a divine vitality. Without the way there is no going, without the truth there is no knowing, without life there is no living.”

Way Philosophy Law Faith Christianity Knowing Divine Christian Life Code Ritual Vitality

Book:John: The Gospel of Belief

Source: John: The Gospel of Belief

“Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.”

Painting Findings Drawing Vitality

Author:Paula Rego

“Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it. ... Thus, it is the communication process which is at the core of the vitality and integrity of science.”

Science Individual Process Knowledge Creation Communication Integrity Accounts Core Vitality

Book:Enough of Pessimism: 100 Essays

Source: Enough of Pessimism: 100 Essays

“The wonderful structure of the animal system will probably never permit us to look upon it as a merely physical apparatus, yet the demands of science require that the evidently magnified principles of vitality should be reduced to their natural spheres, or if truth requires, wholly subverted in favor of those more cognizable by the human understanding. The spirit of the age will not tolerate in the devotee of science a quiet indifference.”

Ifs Should Humans Looks Truth Age Science Spirit Understanding Natural Animal Principles Wonderful Quiet Demand Structure Favors Indifference Look Up Permit Spheres Tolerate Vitality Devotee

Author:John Gorrie

“Meditation increases your vitality and strengthens your intelligence... your mental clarity and health improve. You acquire the patience and fortitude to face any problem in life. So, meditate! Only through meditation will you find the treasure you are seeking.”

Problem Faces Meditation Increase Seeking Treasure Clarity Acquire Vitality Fortitude Problems In Life

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Perhaps losing integrity with yourself is the greatest stress of all, far more hurtful to us than competition, time pressure, or lack of respect. Our vitality is rooted in our integrity. When we do not live in one piece, our life force becomes divided. Becoming separated from our authentic values may weaken us.”

May Values Force Pieces Our Lives Becoming Integrity Losing Stress Pressure Competition Divided Rooted Vitality Hurtful One Piece Lack Of Respect

Author:Rachel Naomi Remen

“If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates of materialism and secularity, then the raw spirit truth of our native land is alive and radiant by comparison. For joy and meaning we might well turn to our natural country and witness miracles of vitality and new life, of inspiration and profound beauty; all in some humble, quiet and improbable place.”

“The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an instrument of trade-this is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechanism of existence.”

Life Giving Years Light Truth Turns Sleep Love Is Existence Darkness Habit Drink Goodness Instruments Trade Mere Pace Exposed Mechanism Vitality Mills Lapses Truth Love

Author:James Martineau

“As we take stock on the morrow of victory, we shall find that nothing of real value to the human race has been destroyed. Our dead heroes will have won immortality. Civilisation will have gained new vitality. Humanity will have entered upon a richer heritage.”

Humans Has Beens War Real Values Humanity Race Hero Victory Destroyed Immortality Human Race Heritage Vitality Civilisation Morrow Great War Real Value

Author:Horatio Bottomley

“Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.”

Architect Vitality Inconsistency

Author:Kenzo Tange

“First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it. What's worth doing is worth doing well. And to do anything well, wheter it be typing a letter or drawing up an agreement involving millions, we must give not only our hands to the doing of it, but our brains, our enthusiasm, the best - all that is in us. The task to which you dedicate yourself can never become a drudgery.”

Giving Firsts Wells Whole Hands Brain Millions Tasks Letters Accomplish Drawing Enthusiasm Agreement Aspire Vitality Involving Drudgery Typing

Author:B. C. Forbes

“I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.”

Years Wells Looks Eye Lasts Walks Wonder Seeing Tree Flower Spring Garden Infinite Edges Yesterday Variety Colour Each Day Sixty Vitality Rivals Shrubs Artefacts

Author:Bernard Berenson

“All that is limited by form, semblance, sound, color is called object. Among them all, man alone is more than an object. Though, like objects, he has form and semblance, He is not limited to form. He is more. He can attain to formlessness. When he is beyond form and semblance, beyond "this" and "that," where is the comparison with another object? Where is the conflict? What can stand in his way? He will rest in his eternal place which is no-place. He will be hidden in his own unfathomable secret. His nature sinks to its root in the One. His vitality, his power hide in secret Tao.”

Men Way Form Sound Secret Objects Color Conflict Eternal Roots Eternity Comparison Tao Vitality Unfathomable Semblance

Author:Zhuangzi

“As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.”

Humans Environment Soil Vitality Human Health

Book:A Few Brass Tacks

Source: A Few Brass Tacks

“Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The silence and immobility of the scene was impressive; not the slightest animation or vitality anywhere. It was like a mental image of our globe in its primitive state - a spectacle of Chaos. Around is ice and snow and the remnants of internal fires; above, a sinister sky; below the sombre sea; and over all, the silence of the sepulchre!”

States Behinds Silence Environment Fire Sea Sky Land Scene Lays Distance Chaos Snow Ice Rising Internals Primitive Globes Vitality Animation Impressive Sinister Remnants Ice And Snow

Author:Louis Bernacchi

“Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization.”

Source: Les Misérables

“Perfection of rhythm, balanced perfection of rhythm. Everything in Nature is expressed by rhythmic waves of light. Every thought and action is a light-wave of thought and action. If one interprets the God within one, one's thoughts and actions must be balanced rhythmic waves. Ugliness, fears, failures and diseases arise from unbalanced thoughts and actions. Therefore think beauty always if one desire vitality of body and happiness.”

Ifs Thinking Body Light Action Desire Fear Disease Perfection Wave Arise Rhythm Balanced Vitality Ugliness Thoughts And Actions Unbalanced Light Waves

Author:Walter Russell

“Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.”

Artist Energy Poor Creativity Creative Failure Source Misery Artistic Vitality Creative Energy

Author:Montgomery Clift

“The best conducting technique is that which achieves the maximum musical result with the minimum effort. The only general rule is to infuse all gestures with precision, clarity, and vitality.”

Results Effort Achieve Musical Technique Clarity Gestures Minimum Vitality Maximum Precision Conducting

Author:Fritz Reiner

“That was always what I felt was the beauty of Rock 'n' Roll, it was entertainment and showbiz yet it had the idea of the voice of the people, it had an essence to it which was socially motivated. Not that I want to change to world, you know? But it was sort of relevant to real life, it involved the real essence of poetry or the real essence of fine art. But it was also entertainment. That was the real vitality.”

People Knows World Want Art Ideas Real Felt Voice Rocks Fine Involved Essence Entertainment Real Life Motivated Relevant Rock N Roll Vitality Fine Arts Showbiz

Author:Debbie Harry

“I was a weird kid. I shouldve been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I dont know why Im not gay. I listen to a lot of jazz and world music, like African or Cuban music. Something that has vitality to it. A lot of the American stuff just feeds on itself.”

Knows World Kids Stuff Gay Jazz Broadway Vitality Cuban World Music Broadway Musical Cuban Music

Author:Frank Oz

“Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy and spirit you possess or takes away from it.”

Thinking Spirit Energy Add Vitality

Book:The Hippocrates Diet and Health Program

Source: The Hippocrates Diet and Health Program

“The best way to encourage economic vitality and growth is to let people keep their own money.When you spend your own money, somebody's got to manufacture that which you're spending it on. You see, more money in the private sector circulating makes it more likely that our economy will grow. And, incredibly enough, some want to take away part of those tax cuts. They've been reading the wrong textbook. You don't raise somebody's taxes in the middle of a recession. You trust people with their own money. And, by the way, that money isn't the government's money; it's the people's money.”

People Way Want Enough Government Reading Grows Growth Economy Cutting Economic Middle Taxes Raises Spending Best Way More Money Vitality Private Sector Recessions Textbooks Tax Cuts

Author:George W. Bush

“I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.”

Should Mean Seems Lost Ability Levels Rocks Hills Progressive Metals Vitality

Author:Billy Corgan

“The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies to instant dissolution, so war passes supreme judgment upon social systems that have outlived their vitality.”

War Nations Social Judgment Tests Supreme Atmosphere Features Instant Exposure Vitality Dissolution Redeeming Social Systems Mummy

Author:Karl Marx

“These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.”

Knows Ideas Sometimes Hands Inspiration Born Effort Too Much Heat Instant Rough Strokes Vitality Diligence Sap

Author:Giorgio Vasari

“Enthusiasm is that ingredient of vitality mixed with a firm belief in what you are doing that ensures the success of any project you undertake.”

Belief Projects Enthusiasm Firm Ingredients Vitality Public Speaking Firm Beliefs

Author:Dale Carnegie

“Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.”

Persons Past Values Force Focus Thought Provoking Temporary Provoking Vitality Unthinkable

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.”

Has Beens Fighting Depression Pessimism Defeated Restless Vitality Pessimist Susceptible Elementals Demonic

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer but it does not die; it will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place.”

Ifs Heart Doe Desire Suffering Dies Next Strong Grows Loses Tree Empty Affection Branches Emptiness Divided Vitality Cedars Empty Places

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“Integrated meditation practice is like a healthy diet which is indispensable for maintaining your vitality and resistance to disease. Likewise, a balanced meditative practice in the course of a socially engaged way of life heightens your psychological immune system, so that you are less vulnerable to mental imbalances of all kinds.”

Source: The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind

“Men of all social stations live together: they are equal in their desires, yet vary in their methods; they are equal in their passions, yet different in their intelligence; that is their nature-given vitality.”

Men Different Together Desire Passion Given Social Justice Equal Diversity Method Social Justice Stations Vitality Vary

Author:Xunzi

“He who sees age on the outside of things is doomed to underestimate the vitality of raisins.”

Age Aging Doomed Underestimate Vitality Raisins

Author:Philip K. Jason

“Time is an ethereal and sometimes cruel goddess. In her relentless passing, she steals away our youth and vitality, often in ways that seem insignificant until we finally realize how much she has taken. Still, she is also a generous deity, who offers to replace what she has seized with a deeper wisdom and a clearer vision of life's enigmas. In this sense, time can be our most powerful ally-if we are patient enough.”

“The Houston Contractors Association is proud to endorse Council Member Oliver Pennington for re-election to Houston City Council. Council Member Pennington understands that infrastructure investment is crucial to protect the long-term economic vitality of our community. We strongly support his efforts on behalf of small businesses and the construction industry while demonstrating his commitment to sound management of the city's budget.”

“In my experience, if you steer clear of dogma and muster up more love than you thought you had to give, then your vitality increases, satisfaction sets in, sweetness surfaces. I believe in the creative power of good feelings. I'm convinced that the desire to be real is everyone's divine imperative.”

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