Youthfulness Quotes - Page 2

• I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them - the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.

  Thomas Merton

  Sweet, College, Years

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.156, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No matter what age we are, regress to a certain youthfulness with people we've known our whole lives, especially our parents. And since I've written the brothers as young people a lot - most notably Archer & Armstrong #0 and the upcoming Book of Death: Legends of the Geomancer #4 , it comes very naturally to me.

  Fred Van Lente

  Brother, Book, Archer

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• You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

  Germaine Greer

  Life, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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• Before you know it it's 3 am and you're 80 years old and you can't remember what it was like to have 20 year old thoughts or a 10 year old heart.

  Anita Pallenberg

  Time, Memories, Heart

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• I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Ambition, Boredom

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• Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see this phenomenon only in terms of changing ideals of bodily appearance (such as slimness or youthfulness), or as solely brought about by the commodifying influence of advertising. We become responsible for the design of our own bodies, and in a certain sense noted above are forced to do so the more post-traditional the social contexts in which we move.

  Anthony Giddens

  Moving, Adoption, Design

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.107, John Wiley & Sons

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• The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Education, Children, Growing Up

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

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• To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Monday, Work

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• Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

  E. B. White

  Birthday, Special, Age

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• I am not young enough to know everything.

  James M. Barrie

  Book, Athlete, Knowledge

  The Admirable Crichton (performed 1902, pubd. 1914) act 1

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• The young have stolen our youthfulness, and flaunt it without shame.

  Mason Cooley

  Youth, Shame, Stolen

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• If you want to stay youthful, stay useful.

  Harvey Mackay

  Want, Ifs

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• If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

  Gail Sheehy

  Growing, Awakening, Aging

  Gail Sheehy (2011). “New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time”, p.429, Ballantine Books

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• The idea of The Boy Vs. The Cynic is the tension between the wide-eyed optimism in youthfulness where you think nothing can go wrong, "I've got the world ahead of me. I'm gonna be a go-getter.

  John Reuben Zappin

  Boys, Thinking, Ideas

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• My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Feelings, Age, Use

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• Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness. The symbol of art is seen again in the magic flute of the Great God Pan which makes the young goats frisk at the edge of the grove. All modern art begins to appear comprehensible and in a way great when it is interpreted as an attempt to instill youthfulness into an ancient world.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Art, Men, Magic

  "The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter "Art a Thing of No Consequence", 1925.

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• The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Age, Disease, Increase

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• My desire is for the young people of the entire world to come closer to Mary. She is the bearer of an indelible youthfulness and beauty that never wanes. May young people have increasing confidence in her and may they entrust their lives to her.

  Pope John Paul II

  People, Desire, World

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• Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Heart, Self, Mind

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.72

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• It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Europe, America, Optimism

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• Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed ‘dignity’ to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Depressing, Brother

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• I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Giving, May, Youth

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• Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

  Tryon Edwards

  Health, Men, Years

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.58, Ravenio Books

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• It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old.

  Emile Coue

  Years, Ideas, Numbers

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• Never think oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old.

  James Farley

  Thinking, Persons

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