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Youth never disappears,
for it is still in harmony
with the Divine.
Alexandre Dumas |
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Youth
enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own
favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing
every
adventure,
but of obtaining those rewards which the
accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to
believe that the force of merit can
be resisted
by obstinacy
and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and
malignity.
Samuel
Johnson
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In the
middle of a conversation, she'll frequently say something like,
"Young people are heartless, they don't have any respect
anymore." I nod agreement in hopes that she'll stop right there, but secretly
I'm
convinced that the heart is the same as it's always been; there's
simply
less hypocrisy, that's all. Young people aren't naturally
selfish, any more
than old folks are naturally wise. Your age doesn't have
anything to do
with whether you're sensitive or shallow; it's a question
of the path your life takes.
Susanna Tamaro
People are always talking about the joys
of
youth—but, oh, how youth can suffer!
May Sarton
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Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly
not devoid of intelligence; it sees through
shams with sharp and
terrible eyes.
H. L. Mencken
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Don't laugh at youth for their affectations;
they are only
trying on one face after another to find their own.
Logan P. Smith
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The young do not know enough to be prudent,
and
therefore they attempt the impossible--
and achieve it, generation
after generation.
Pearl S. Buck
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird
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James M. Barrie
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You stay young as long as you can learn,
acquire new
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The arrogance of age must submit
to be taught by
youth.
Edmund Burke
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Through our great good
fortune,
in our youth our
hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us
to learn
at the outset that life is
a profound and passionate thing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Youth is not a question of years:
one is young or old
from birth.
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The best way to keep young is to keep going in
whatever it is that keeps you going.
With me that's work, and a lot
of it. And when a job is finished, relax and have fun.
Ingrid
Bergman
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Youth is a wonderful thing.
What
a crime to waste it on children.
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It is only by introducing the young to great
literature, drama and music,
and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the
possibilities
that lie within the human spirit--enable them to see
visions
and dream dreams.
Eric Anderson
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Youth
Samuel Ullman
Youth
is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter
of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of
the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions;
it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage
over
timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease.
This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty.
Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.
We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up
enthusiasm
wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the
heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human
being's
heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of
what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center
of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long
as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and
power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is
covered with
snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown
old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the
waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little
later in life.
Herbert Henry Asquith |
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Young
people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than
for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled
business.
Francis
Bacon
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Young people
are apt to think themselves wise enough,
as drunken people are apt to think themselves sober enough.
Lord
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I approve of a youth that has something of the old person in him or
her,
so I am no less pleased with an old person that has something of the
youth.
They that follow this rule may be old in body, but can never be so
in mind.
Marcus Cicero |
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The young always have the same problem -- how to
rebel and conform
at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their
parents and copying one another.
Quentin Crisp |
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Youth
is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Euripides
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It
takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso |
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Youth
is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable
for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower
season,
and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
Samuel Butler |
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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy.
It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
Margaret Atwood |
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I
was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I
have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.
Mary Pickford |
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Youth
is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old
as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young
is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young.
Keep your hope young.
Luella F. Phean |
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Youth is, after
all, just a moment, but it is the moment,
the spark that you always carry in your heart.
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Anyone
who stops learning
is old, whether at twenty
or eighty. Anyone who
keeps
learning stays young. The
greatest thing in life is to
keep
your mind young.
Henry
Ford
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Would you remain always young, and would you carry all the joyousness and buoyancy of youth into your maturer years? Then have care concerning but one thing, — how you live in your thought world.
It was the inspired one, Gautama, the Buddha, who said, — "The mind is everything; what you think you become."
And the same thing had Ruskin in mind when he said, — "Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts.
None of us as yet know, for none of us have been taught in early youth, what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought — proof against all adversity."
And would you have in your body all the elasticity, all the strength, all the beauty of your younger years?
Then live these in your mind, making no room for unclean thought, and you will externalize them in your body.
In the degree that you keep young in thought will you remain young in body.
And you will find that your body will in turn aid your mind, for body helps mind the same as mind helps body.
Ralph Waldo
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I listened, in my
youth, to conversations between grown-up
people through which there breathed a tone of sorrowful
regret which repressed the heart. The speakers looked back
at the idealism and capacity for enthusiasm of their youth as
something precious to which they ought to have held fast,
and yet at the same time they regarded it as almost a law of
nature that no one should be able to do so. This woke in me
a dread of having ever, even once, to look back on any past
with such a feeling; I resolved never to let myself become
subject to this tragic domination of mere reason, and what
I thus vowed in almost boyish defiance I have tried to carry out.
Albert
Schweitzer |
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