All Quotes By Tag: Youth
“may my heart always be open to littlebirds who are the secrets of livingwhatever they sing is better than to knowand if men should not hear them men are oldmay my mind stroll about hungryand fearless and thirsty and suppleand even if it’s sunday may i be wrongfor whenever men are right they are not youngand may myself do nothing usefullyand love yourself so more than trulythere’s never been quite such a fool who could failpulling all the sky over him with one smile”
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“You reminded me of a puppy dog. Someone so confused with which way to go. Excited and curious, but stuck in happiness that he seem to can’t move.”
“It’s not that the old are wiseBut that we thirst for the wisdomwe had at twentywhen we understood everythingwhen our brains bubbledwith tingling insightspercolating up fromour brilliant genitalswhen our music rang like a global siegeshooting down all the lies in the worldoh then we knew the truththen we sparkled like mica in graniteand now we stand on the shoreof an ocean that rises and risesbut is too salt to drink”
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“The most impactful moments of my life have been the clean ones. The clean streets in the early a.m. hours—the town is mine to own. The blank pages—no story yet written. The new friendship, the new name, the new pair of eyes staring into mine and I can be whoever I want from now on.”
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“Do you remember the last time you dreamed of changing a bit of the world?If you stopped doing it, you ‘re not young anymore, if you never did it, you never were.”
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“The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring — that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.”
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“I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers. For the young we scarcely exist unless we are unavoidable members of the same family, farting, slobbering, perpetually mislaying teeth and bifocals.”
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“I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.”
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“We shouldn’t have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.”
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“One of the biggest barriers to a great vision, is failure to emancipate oneself from a gradual personality fabrication; that overshadows the best of your unique capabilities in order to level yourself to a social norm.”
“A wealth of experience and wisdom doesn’t have to be a dead giveaway to your increasing years. The spin you put on it is what will keep you young. Don’t let it make you bitter. Learn from it, and let it make you better.”
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“How to win in life:1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow5 don’t let people tell you it cant be done6 make no excuses”
“When I Was One-And-TwentyWhen I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say,`Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away;Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.’But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me.When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again,`The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain;’Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.’And I am two-and-twenty And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.”
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