Exuberance Quotes

• Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

  Anne Sexton

  Saint, Moderation, Poet

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Encouragement, Children, Needs

  Corrie Ten Boom, Pam Rosewell Moore (2004). “Life Lessons from Corrie Ten Boom”

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• Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

  Yoko Ono

  Summer, Perseverance, Gratitude

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• I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Short Life, Waste, Decor

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• Exuberance is beauty.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Beauty, Gratitude

  William Blake (2017). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, p.11, Litres

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• You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world

  Sheilah Graham Westbrook

  Motivational, Inspiring, Goal

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• Exuberance is a gift of grace that allows us to move on, to seek, to love again.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Moving, Passion, Grace

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• Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring: in the severe abstinence of grey winter: in the living flesh that animates our bodily frame: in the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright: in living, in the exercise of all our powers: in the acquisition of knowledge. . . Joy is there everywhere.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Spring, Winter, Exercise

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.64, Rabindranath Tagore

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• The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of their dreams, the desperate vitality of their ambitions, that they stand apart from ordinary people of good will.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Dream, Ambition, People

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• Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.

  Mary Oliver

  Be Good

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.213, Penguin

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• Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

  David Mamet

  Age, Youth, Beats

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• Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.

  William Blake

  Beautiful, Way

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• Real happiness comes from having an unassailable connection to the deep state of unbounded awareness at our core. This state of being is our own inner joy that expresses the exuberance and wonder of being alive at this moment; it is our own self-luminous essence made conscious of itself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Real, Self, Essence

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• And let us remember too that life, in its exuberance, always succeeds in overflowing the narrow limits within which man thinks he can confine it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Men, Thinking, Limits

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• A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.

  John Grogan

  Loyalty, Dog, Heart

  John Grogan (2010). “Bad Dogs Have More Fun: Selected Writings on Family, Animals, and Life from the Philadelphia Inquirer”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.

  Lewis Thomas

  Health, People, Dying

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.

  Bob Black

  Travel, Adventure, Joy

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• If you have a task to perform and are vitally interested in it, excited and challenged by it, and then you will exert maximum energy.
  But in the excitement, the pain of fatigue dissipates, and the exuberance of what you hope to achieve overcomes the weariness.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Pain, Overcoming

  "Jimmy Carter on Passion". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org.

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• How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?

  Alan Greenspan

  Memorable, Assets, Irrational

  Remarks at American Enterprise Institute dinner, Washington, D.C., 5 Dec. 1996

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• A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sarcastic, Sophisticated, Egotistical

  Referring to Gladstone in a speech at a banquet in The Duke of Wellington's Riding School, Knightsbridge, 27 July 1878: 'The Times' 29 July 1878

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• I’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion.

  Anna Sui

  Fashion, Optimism, Feels

  "Spring 2010 Ready-to-Wear: Anna Sui" by Laird Borrelli-Persson, www.vogue.com. September 16, 2009.

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• Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Exuberance is better than taste.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Enthusiasm, Taste

  Gustave Flaubert (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert (Illustrated)”, p.1193, Delphi Classics

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• Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.

  Alan Lightman

  Passion, Honor, Moments

  Alan Lightman (2014). “The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew”, p.38, Vintage

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• When people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work. Kill the grimness with laughter. Encourage exuberance. Get rid of sad dogs that spread gloom.

  David Ogilvy

  Dog, Laughter, Fun

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