“Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.” YoungDangerYouthExtremesOur Time Author:Gail Godwin
“The oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive the arrows of his own outrageous fortune and in the two weeks of his carefree youth find a clean smooth place to fix on, the years afterwards are full of stress, passion, and danger.” IfsShouldYearsTwoPassionChanceWeekDangerYouthExcitingStressCleanFortuneSmoothArrowsTwo WeeksOutrageousOystersSlimCarefreeExciting Life Book:Consider the Oyster Source: Consider the Oyster
“Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by those who cling to a present which is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement and danger which comes with even the most peaceful progress. 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 life of ease...” WorldMindStatesImaginationAnswersQualityProgressDyingSecurityDangerThis WorldYouthPlanetsAdventureDemandIllusionMovedObstaclesCrueltyPeacefulEaseExcitementRelyYieldAppetiteState Of MindTemperDogmaSlogansObsoleteTimidity Author:Robert Kennedy