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I imagine that one of the first forms of behavior, like one of the first signals, may be reduced to this: “Keep me warm.”

—Michel Serres, 1982

The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.

—William James, 1902

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

—Germaine Greer, 1970

The brightest light burns the quickest.

—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

—Lorraine Hansberry, 1965

At the start there’s always energy.

—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006

Fire destroys that which feeds it.

—Simone Weil, c. 1940

A first-class man subsists on the matter he destroys.

—Saul Bellow, 1989
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