Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us.
I became bored - that was all. Boredom, which is another name and a frequent disguise for vitality, became the unconscious motive of all my acts.
Ours is a shockingly dead view of creation. We ourselves are the only things in the universe to which we grant an authentic vitality, and because of this we are not fully alive.
Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression.
Life however is teeming with vitality and is likewise terribly tenacious; holding on against impossible odds in impossible situations over impossible lengths of time.
Fashion embraces the weirdos. They're into that. There are always young people that people in fashion are interested in. You know, youth and vitality and energy - it brings something different.
Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?
When we connect with our personal authenticity and truth, the vitality that is triggered becomes an eternal spring of regenerative passion that continues to expand our experience.
A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.
A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight.
The vital power of an imaginative work demands a diversity within its unity; and the stronger the diversity the more massive the unity.
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.
[Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important.
Every user of the river down here understands that a healthy river is absolutely vital for a healthy economy and a healthy tourism industry.
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy.
But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.
Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.
In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.
America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.
