A Commonplace Book

Category: youth...

  • asking a person to tell you a story of their youth
  • Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile. (Oscar Wilde)
  • In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating quality of the mind. Hence, youth is the time for poetry, and age is more inclined to philosophy. In practical affairs it is the same: a man shapes his resolutions in youth more by the impression that the outward world makes upon him; whereas, when he is old, it is thought that determines his actions. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
  • Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts. (J Ortega y Gasset)
  • Youth is not a question of years: one's young or old from birth. (N.C. Barney)
  • Youth has no age. (Pablo Picasso)
  • youth is one of our oldest words
  • This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. (Robert F. Kennedy)

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