To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness.
Wine gives strength to weary men.
The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question, all of it is invigorating.
I love what I do. I love the invigoration of doing things I haven't done before.
Rick Rubin and my father had a great friendship and it's because of it that the work my dad did at the end of his life was created - that he felt creativity and invigorated again, even though he was being consumed by frailty.
It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book...from the reading of 'good books' there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way.
Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.
There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he turned his face to it, fresh life and strength surging in his blood and bracing his limbs.
You can't be a band and not play, and playing is so invigorating. It breathes life into you. So does creating something out of nothing.
People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.
Anytime you get an opportunity to put more fun into the game, that's good. I've got a lot of positive energy.
The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.
There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration.
Swimming in the U.K. is not really about enjoying a sultry experience. It's about cold, clear acts of purification, and constitutional durability. It's about invigoration and bravado.
Our charity is to be cordial...something that renews, invigorates and warms. Such should be the effect of our love for each other.
I don't feel 'vibes' when I enter a building - don't feel the previous owners looking down on me. But I do know when a place feels friendly.
I think March and fall are natural seasons for me to feel invigorated.
You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
Keep the windows open to the East.
The Temper Trap's 'Sweet Disposition' is an invigorating song. It's my mental cue to let go of stress, disconnect from my career and connect to my body and my spirit.
Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. -Jonathan
Shake me and wake me.
Instructions to his national security advisor, Brent Scowcroft, should there be any nighttime emergencies: