Quotes about Vitality

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

A vigorous young mind not overbalanced by passion, finds a good in making acquaintance with life, and watches its own powers with interest.

The tired ox treads with a firmer step.

Impulses of intelligence constantly create the body in new forms every second.

I just don't have time to get old!

Excitement doesn't knock at your door any less when you're older than when you're younger. It's just that when you're younger, you're more likely to open the door and let it in. With age, you start growing ambivalent about excitement. You might say that you want it, but at the same time you're not sure you have the energy for it. Yet a surefire way to diminish your energy is to deny the Ultimate energy pill, which is participation in life itself.

Laughter—just good bone-shaking, belly-jiggling, light-in-the-head laughter, is a sure sign of health. The only one who hates it is Satan and all his wannabes.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

It was good to be alive; it was better to be young; it was best of all to be in love.

Let a living faith run like threads of gold through the performance of even the smallest duties. Then all the daily work will promote Christian growth. There will be a continual looking unto Jesus. Love for Him will give vital force to everything that is undertaken.—My Life Today, p. 250.

It is not the highest work of education to communicate knowledge merely, but to impart that vitalizing energy which is received through the contact of mind with mind, and soul with soul.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.