Vital Quotes

“Some details in life may look insignificant but appear to be vital leitmotifs in a person's life. They may have the value of "Rosebuds" of Citizen Kane or "Madeleine cookies" of Marcel Proust or "Strawberry fields" of the Beatles. People regularly walk down the memory lane of their early youth. The paper boats of their childhood are recurrently floating on the waves of their mind and bring back the mood and the spirit of the early days. They enable us to retreat from the trivial, daily worries and can generate delightful bliss and true joy in a sometimes frantic and chaotic life. ("Paper boats forever" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice; the persecuting people it carries into fiendish sadistic cruelty. Mind you, though this may seem to justify the eighteenth-century Age of Reason in its contention that religion is nothing but an organized, gigantic fraud and a curse to the human race, nothing could be farther from the truth. It possesses these two aspects, the evil one of the two appealing to people capable of naïve hatred; but what is actually happening is that when you get natures stirred to their depths over questions which they feel to be overwhelmingly vital, you get the bad stirred up in them as well as the good; the mud as well as the water. It doesn't seem to matter much which sect you have, for both types occur in all sects....”
― Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

“Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the blue, in the middle of the day, at the center of a public place, like a cerebral attack. Check mated by 'daily routine', he may feel trapped in a smothering set of circumstances and only a deconstruction of all impeding barriers can bring about a vital mental deliverance. ( "Check and mate" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Relatedness is vital in a time when so many people suffer from social deafness. Emotional insensitivity being caused by a redoubtable “tin ear” makes it impossible to hear any signs of empathy or capture the vibrant qualities of ‘sharing’. ("Only needed a light ")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“On the train I saw that world passing my window. It was when I came to see it was I who was passing that my self-centered childhood was over. But it was not until I began to write, that I found the world out there revealing, because memory had become attached to seeing, love had added itself to discovery, and because I recognized in my own continuing longing to keep going, the need I carried inside myself to know - the apprehension, first, and then the passion, to connect myself to it. Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it. This is, of course, simply saying that the outside world is the vital component of my inner life. My imagination takes its strength and guides its direction from what I see and hear and learn and feel and remember of my living world. But I was to learn slowly that both these worlds, outer and inner, were different from what they seemed to me in the beginning.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing

“Siqua metu dempto casta est, ea denique casta est; quae, quia non liceat, non facit, illa facit”
― Ovid, Amori

“IRRELIGION, n. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Remember! To breathe is vital and your birth right, not a chore.”
― Heidi M. Morrison (Heidi Morrison Teachings)

“There's more than five senses, it's just one of the ways they suppress us, my precious girl
Vibrations are vital for our planet's progression
In order to move forward
Feel the singular life force of the world”
― Andrew Edward Lucier, Awakenigma Allegory Anomalous

“Daignez plutôt honorer tout d'un temps
De vos bontés vos deux jeunes amants,
Et gardez-vous de risquer votre vie.”
― Voltaire, La Pucelle; Or, the Maid of Orléans: A Poem, in XXI Cantos. Volume 1 of 2.

“..forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings
Give various response to each varying blast,
To whose frail frame no second motion brings
One mood or modulation like the last.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alastor Or The Spirit Of Solitude

“Good sleep is vital to good mental health.”
― Steven Magee

“Das Weib, die allgegenwärtige Wirklichkeit, brennt sich uns nackt ins Blut, und wo wir mit ihr kämpfen müssen, da ziehen wir sie am besten erst recht nackt aus, in der Tat oder Vorstellung, so gut wir eben können”
― Gustav Meyrink, Angel of the West Window

“Ma in un pomeriggio di agosto alla pineta ci tornò con un branco di tacchini cercando ombra, e ci trovò l'amore”
― Gabriele d'Annunzio, Turlendana ritorna e Turlendana ebro

“Нелюбезно провожать даму и всю дорогу говорить с нею только о своей честности! Может быть, это и честно, но, по меньшей мере, скучно.”
― Anton Chekhov, Ivanov

“Человеку нужно не три аршина земли, не усадьба, а весь земной шар, вся природа, где на просторе он мог бы проявить все свойства и особенности своего свободного духа.”
― Anton Chekhov, Крыжовник

“И инстинкт здоровья и молодости льстил ей и лгал, что настоящая поэзия жизни не пришла, а ещё впереди, и она верила и, откинувшись на спинку стула (у неё распустились волосы при этом), стала смеяться, а глядя на неё, смеялись и остальные. И в столовой долго не умолкал беспричинный смех.”
― Антон Павлович Чехов, Бабье царство

“Павлин на плече Ивана Никодимыча уходил последним. Он сидел, как солнце в сыром осеннем небе, он
сидел, как сидит июль на розовом берегу реки, раскалённый июль в длинной
холодной траве.”
― Isaac Babel, Одесские рассказы

“Рита засмеялась в ответ, и, пока она смеялась, я подумал, что её зубы вполне пригодны для того, чтобы разгрызть сухой початок кукурузы, если бы в том случилась нужда.”
― Аркадий Гайдар, Обрез

“..igualaos,
cúmplase el roble,
cúmplase el leopardo entre dos robles,..”
― César Vallejo, Poemas en prosa / Poemas humanos / España, aparta de mí este cáliz

“Пеняй на самого себя!
Тебе единым на потребу
да будет - пристальность твоя.”
― Александр Блок, Возмездие

“Случайно на ноже карманном
найди пылинку дальних стран -
и мир опять предстанет странным,
закутанным в цветной туман!”
― Alexander Blok, Стихотворения 1907-1916 годов

“Пока оседлые люди будут искать истины, яблоко с дерева познания не будет сорвано.”
― Лев Шестов, All Things are Possible

“Si nuestras vidas son cuentos que cuenta Alá, entonces somos la audiencia y los protagonistas al mismo tiempo, y es a fuerza de vivir esos cuentos como recibimos nuestras enseñanzas.”
― Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

“Nada borra el pasado. Existe el arrepentimiento, existe la enmienda, y existe el perdón. No hay más, pero con eso basta.”
― Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

“I was amazed at how easy this was. I was filled with electric thunder, simmering water, fiery red and gold, but all I had to do was smile and nod and the world would take me for easy breezy blue. Sometimes I wondered if I wasn’t the only one using her skin to contain herself. Maybe we are all fire wrapped in skin, trying to look cool.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“The more you socialize, more you increase your exposure of being vulnerable to give up vital information to your rivals.”
― Himangshu Shekhar

“The more you socialize, the more you increase your exposure of being vulnerable to give up vital information to your rivals.”
― Himangshu Shekhar

“If no apple has ever been shot off a boy's head from the beginning of the world, it may be done tomorrow morning,and by somebody who has never heard of William Tell”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

“I live as a want. I have a boring life.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land