Exuberance Quotes

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Anne Sexton
“Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.”
Anne Sexton

Erik Pevernagie
“What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ("Give me more images")”
Erik Pevernagie

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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John Muir
“A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm,
waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like
worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their
songs never cease. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)”
John Muir

Robert Walser
“My cheeks are red hot,
my lip still trembles,
because I sent my heart
to speak; every word of it
delusional and awkward,
an exuberance, an abrupt sound.
That's how I spoke, oh, it still
shows on my hot cheeks
I'm now carrying home.
I look down at the snow
and walk past many houses,
past many hedges, many trees,
the snow adorns hedge, tree and house.
I walk on, staring down
at the snow, on my cheeks
nothing but red-hot memory
reminding me of my wild talk.”
Robert Walser, Oppressive Light: Selected Poems by Robert Walser

Sadhguru
“The longing for peace has essentially come from troubled minds, minds that are torturing themselves. For them, peace is a big commodity that they have to seek. If you are not using your mind for self-torture, why would you think of peace? Would you seek the exuberance of life or would you seek peace? Only if you have become an expert in self-torture, peace seems to be the greatest thing.”
Jaggi Vasudev, Of Mystics & Mistakes

J.M. Coetzee
“To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.”
J.M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals

Shannon  Mullen
“My mind feels like a race car on the track, getting faster and faster every time I pause to think or blink or try to focus on anything. Nothing can keep up to it, not the other cars, not my body, not anyone else in the bar. It’s a rush, pure exhilaration, and I’m having the time of my life. But instead of driving, I’m in the passenger seat, along for the ride, watching myself race around the track from my barstool.”
Shannon M Mullen, See What Flowers

Vijaya Gowrisankar
“Your exuberance, passion,
mesmerizing voice,
animated actions,
and eyes full of dreams
captured my attention
so completely,
that I didn't feel
the bitter taste of coffee”
Vijaya Gowrisankar

John Kenneth Galbraith
“The recurrent and sadly erroneous belief that effortless enrichment is an entitlement associated with what is thought to be exceptional financial perspicacity and wisdom is not something that yields to legislative remedy.”
John Kenneth Galbraith, A Short History of Financial Euphoria

Lauren Groff
“And this country has lost what has made it magic, of course. The exuberance, you know. Things, I am afraid, are soon to fall apart. The center cannot hold, all that.”
Lauren Groff, Arcadia

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Someone one said, ‘I just wanna lay me down and die,’ which implies that they’re currently doing neither. But that doesn’t mean that they’re not living as if they are.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

L.A. Kragie
“Jaunting off together towards the bedroom doorway, they cast off their clothes, like caps at graduation.”
L.A. Kragie, Vampire Chimeras

Patrick Leigh Fermor
“I lay in one of those protracted moments of rapture which scatter this journey like asteriks. A little more, I felt, and I would have gone up like a rocket.”
Patrick Leigh Fermor

Nitya Prakash
“When they see the sun setting, do the birds go in a frenzy to stop him or dance in his exuberance through the day?”
Nitya Prakash

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I must not bend great things to suit myself. Rather, I must bend myself to suit great things. For to do anything else is to trade the exuberance of living for the poverty of existence.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

“But I was struck by the drama he created and his personal flair. His unique presence and obvious intelligence started to suck me into his drama, almost as if I were auditioning for a part.”
Zac Bissonnette, The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute