life force

Noun

Meaning

(biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms

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life-force

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Examples

Who are we? We are the life force power of the universe. Jill Bolte Taylor

I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on. John Travolta

When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives. Audre Lorde

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change. Ramsey Clark

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts. Ray Bradbury

The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force. Isabel Allende

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