Hardness and rigidity are companions of death. Softness and flexibility are companions of life.
Only where there is life is there also will: not will to live, but—so I teach you—will to power!
The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.
For believe me, the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously!
Death is the indispensable companion of life, without which life would lose all its savor.
You cannot live at all, unless you can live fully now.
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death.
Anything that makes you weak physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Because you are alive, everything is possible.
The secret of health lies in the harmony of mind and spirit.
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Whenever a choice arises, choose the unknown, choose the risky, choose that which makes your heart beat faster.
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