Lost Youth Quotes

• Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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  There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

  Sophia Loren

  Life, Birthday, Death

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Birthday, Art, Turning 50

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• It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Age, Illusion

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.164, Diversion Books

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• Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspiring, Graduation, Dream

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  Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Family

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

  Mason Cooley

  Birthday, Mourning, Age

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• The thoughts of Youth are long, long thoughts

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Long, Youth

  'My Lost Youth' (1858)

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  Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

  Betty Friedan

  Birthday, Strength, Inspiring

  "How to live longer, better, wiser". Betty Friedan, Parade Magazine (pp. 4-6), March 20, 1994.

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• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Jack Benny

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Elderly

  New York Times, 1974.

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• All Quiet on the Western Front.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Quiet, Western Movie

  All Quiet on the Western Front ch. 12 (1929) (translation by A. W. Wheen) See Beers 1

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• They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Memories, Lost Love, Together

  Elizabeth Hardwick (2011). “Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature”, p.97, New York Review of Books

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• His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Eye, Quiet Moments, Voice

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.891, 谷月社

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• Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to pretend it's youth, you are going to miss it. You are going to miss the surprises, the possibilities, and the evolution that we are just beginning to know about because there are no role models, no guideposts, and no signs.

  Betty Friedan

  Opportunity, Bad Ass, Role Models

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• It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

  Betty Friedan

  Women, Live Life, Easier

  "The Feminine Mystique".

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• The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

  Betty Friedan

  Women, History, Feminist

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

  Betty Friedan

  Women, Being A Woman, Enjoy

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

  Tara Brach

  Lost Love, Heart, Love Life

  Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.280, Bantam

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• The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.

  Betty Friedan

  Country, Women, Names

  The Feminine Mystique ch. 14 (1963)

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• There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for his lost youth-yet the waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his soul, responsibility and a love of life, the faint stirring of old ambitions and unrealized dreams...... And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use to the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Pain, Memories

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.222, Xist Publishing

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• I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Ideas, Voice

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.237

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• What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? "No, thank you," he will think. "Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these things are things that cannot inspire envy."

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Past, Reality, Thinking

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.94, Beacon Press

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• She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Moving, World, Tender Is The Night

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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