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“In an ideal world we would all learn in childhood to love ourselves. We would grow, being secure in our worth and value, spreading love wherever we went, letting our light shine. If we did not learn self-love in our youth, there is still hope. The light of love is always in us, no matter how cold the flame. It is always present, waiting for the spark to ignite, waiting for the heart to awaken and call us back to the first memory of being the life force inside a dark place waiting to be born - waiting to see the light.”

“It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away.”

Giving Wells Hard Character Dies Fighting Grows Born Sin Struggle Youth Charm Temper Intolerance

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“No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been condemned to an early death or a life of misery and brutality, whom the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that.”

World Has Beens Life Is Born Fate Generations Youth Misery Oppression Around The World Destined Oblivion Brutality Early Death

Author:Bob Avakian

“We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is inherent in youth, the nature of sickness is inherent in health, in the midst of life we are verily in death.”

Moments Dies Causes Born Youth Birth Sickness Midst Decay Inherent

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Being born in '31 was during the Depression and in my earlier youth World War II took place - so it was not the best of times, and yet I don't recall ever having experiences that were a burden.”

World War Born Youth Burden War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Recalls

Author:Paul Smith

“Born in the Flint, Michigan, big boat sailing on the Great Lakes and skiing in the winter was how most of my youth was spent.”

Bigs Born Youth Winter Boat Lakes Sailing Michigan Skiing Great Lakes

Author:Doug Rice

“Part of the reason might be that I was born in 1954 and I look upon my youth with great fondness, like many old men. And, though my work doesn't focus much on good things, I see that period as America's heyday. True, we had many problems, like racism and Vietnam, but we still weren't quite as nuts as we seem to be now.”

Men Looks Stills Reason Problem Seems Might America Born Focus Youth Periods Racism Good Things Look Up Old Man Nuts Vietnam Fondness Heyday

Author:Donald Ray Pollock

“In Holland, Moroccans automatically also have the Moroccan nationality even if they're born in the Netherlands, because the Moroccan law says that if one of the parents is Moroccan the children wherever they are born in the world are Moroccan as well.The Moroccan youth in the Netherlands between the age of 14 and 23, two-thirds of them have been arrested by the police at least once in their life.”

Ifs World Wells Children Has Beens Two Age Law Parent Born Youth Thirds Police Nationality Arrested Holland Netherlands

Author:Geert Wilders

“Certainly youth of color, particularly those in ghetto communities, find themselves born into the cage. They are born into a community in which the rules, laws, policies, structures of their lives virtually guarantee that they will remain trapped for life. It begins at a very early age when their parents themselves are either behind bars or locked in a permanent second-class status and cannot afford them the opportunities they otherwise could.”

Age Law Opportunity Parent Born Community Behinds Class Policy Youth Color Structure Bars Permanent Guarantees Locked Trapped Cages Ghetto Guarantees That Class Status

Author:Michelle Alexander

“Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests of young women impaled on steering-columns; the cheek of handsome youths torn on the chromium latches of quarter-lights. To Vaughan, these wounds formed the key to a new sexuality, born from a perverse technology. The images of these wounds hung in the gallery of his mind, like exhibits in the museum of a slaughterhouse.”

“Heads in the Women's Ward On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every tendon sharply sketched; A bearded mouth talks silently To someone no one else can see. Sixty years ago they smiled At lover, husband, first-born child. Smiles are for youth. For old age come Death's terror and delirium.”

Years Firsts Children Eye Age Lying Born White Youth Hair Lovers Husband Mouths Years Ago Terror Old Age Staring Necks Sixty Pillow Delirium White Hair

Author:Philip Larkin

“But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.”

Has Beens Left Wish Born Youth Sweet One Day Refuse Indifference Dull

Book:The Way of the World: A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's Servants. Written by Mr. Congreve

Source: The Way of the World: A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's Servants. Written by Mr. Congreve

“We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous one. We leave childhood without knowing what youth is, we marry without knowing what it is to be married, and even when we enter old age, we don't know what it is we're heading for: the old are innocent children innocent of thier old age. In that sense, man's world is the planet of inexperience.”

Knows Men World Children Age Born Knowing Childhood Youth Planets Married Innocent Old Age One Time New Life Being Married Headings Inexperience Innocent Children

Author:Milan Kundera