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“Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your life on hobbies, sports, and other recreational pursuits. Do not throw away the precious moments of your life on entertainment, movies, and video games. Though some of these things can properly have a 'small place' in the Christian's life, we must be careful not to give undue attention to temporal and fruitless activities. Do not waste your life. Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God.”

“The activity of the young is like that of railcars in motion--they tear along with noise and turmoil, and leave peace behind them. The quietest nooks, invaded by them, lose their quietude as they pass, and recover it only on their departure.”

Young Loses Behinds Youth Tears Activity Noise Departure Turmoil

Book:Summaries of Thought

Source: Summaries of Thought

“We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.”

Body Age Church Youth Activity Old Age Repentance Compensation Farce Revelry

Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words

“The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the other world. That state is an eternal spring, ever fresh and flourishing. Now, to pass from midnight into noon on the sudden, to be decrepit one minute and all spirit and activity the next, must be a desirable change. To call this dying is an abuse of language.”

“The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better life for the community as well as for individuals here and there. This dim sense is the ground of our abiding idealization of childhood.”

Wells Children Individual Community Childhood Possibility Youth Activity Desert Better Life Here And There Abiding

Book:The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922

Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1922

“There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out of place as an activity there still should be the large and quiet space in the consciousness where it lives quiescent. Old people can have a lovely quiescent sort of sex, like apples, leaving the young quite free for their sort.”

People Should Long Stills Young Sex Space Consciousness Youth Activity Quiet Long Time Aging Leaving Lovely Apples Old People Quiet Space

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“My trick - is there one? Well, perhaps a bitter youth with many changes of occupation, with the necessity of trying everything from poetry to berry picking. These difficult early years probably constitute the sources of my modest photographic activity.”

Trying Years Wells Difficult Youth Source Activity Tricks Bitter Occupation Modest Berries Trying Everything

Author:Martin Munkacsi

“There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.”

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays