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“It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'”

Ifs School Study Youth Succeed Helpful Desperation

Author:Olivia Wilde

“It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well.”

Ifs Thinking World Wells Team Youth Balance Finals Cups Better Off Monarchy Rugby World Cup Cup Finals

Author:Prince William

“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”

Ifs World Inspirational Giving Trying Looks Persons Book Today Young Reading Literature Youth Gains Thought Provoking Reading Books Impressed Literacy Writers Reading

Author:Maya Angelou

“For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic enterprises. The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of oriental princesses; every rotary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.”

Ifs Passion Minutes Youth Poet Capable Heat Enterprise Carrie Heroic Princess Immense Mediocre Bourgeois Debris Libertine Rotary

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.”

Ifs Men World Way Youth Goes On Men And Women Blessed Corners Determined Arrogance Corners Of The World Arrogance Of Youth

Author:William Morris

“Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.”

Ifs Should Heart Reason Beautiful Faces Romance Girl Women Laughing Sacrifice Youth Ambition Beats Sight Silent Dear Tragic Sober Sweetest Parts Of Life Faded Sour Gowns Little Women Spinsters

Book:Little Women

Source: Little Women

“The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.”

Ifs Men World Two Age Past Justice Loss Common Secret Knowing Youth Claims Bones Sly Age And Youth

Book:Cities of the Plain: Book 3 of Border Trilogy

Source: Cities of the Plain: Book 3 of Border Trilogy

“Nothing belongs more fully to an artist than his creation - even if you give him your youth, your money, your love, your courage, nothing belongs to you.”

Ifs Giving Artist Creation Youth

Author:Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

“Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have been gathering in your face. But the pretty thoughts and sweet ways and dear, forgotten kindnesses linger there also, to bloom in your twilight like evening primroses.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Two Faces Girl Kindness Youth Sweet Mouths Blame Forgotten Dear Mysterious Evening Fallen Fifty Your Face Twilight Gathering Concealed Meanness

Author:James M. Barrie

“You know what I think? I think that if a young woman doesn't engage in the act of occasionally wishing on a star or a flower or a birthday cake full of candles, then we're forfeiting one of the sweetest whimsies of our youth.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Young Wish Stars Youth Flower Cake Candle Young Women Sweetest Birthday Cake Whimsy

Author:Robin Jones Gunn

“You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answer their simple questions when they come into your office. You are not nameless to me. Do not remain nameless to yourself — it is too sad a way to be. Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.”

Source: Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman

“If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.”

Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784

“In youth,' he said, speaking as if from a great distance, 'we believe, and the death of belief forces us to disavow all belief. But that disavowal, time softens, and if we do not believe, we hope. Belief is easier to kill, somehow, and its death easier to bear.”

Ifs Believe Said Belief Force Youth Bears Easier Distance

Author:Michelle Sagara

“He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization. The vanity (if not outrage) of trying to cage this dance of atoms in a single definition may give the weariness of age with the cry of youth for answers the appearance of boredom.”

“My parents died a long time ago. And you know the sad thing? I still miss them every day. I spent my entire youth fighting with my dad over every little thing and damned if I wouldn’t sell my soul to see him one more time and tell him I was sorry for the last words I said to him. Words I can never take back that should have never been said. So call your mom. No matter what kind of relationship you have with your parents, I swear to you, you’ll miss them when they’re gone. (Kyrian)”

Source: Chronicles of Nick

“A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.”

Ifs Knows Made Age Heard Youth Equal Fifty Forty

Book:Confucian Analects

Source: Confucian Analects

“Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.”

Ifs Suffering Water Fate Youth Planets Reader Heavy Idiot Gentle Exception Metals Fountain Wretched Hideous Poisonous Fountain Of Youth

Author:William S. Burroughs

“If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that causes it. We know full well that the insertion of new habits or the changing of old ones is the only way to preserve life, to renew our sense of time, to rejuvenate, intensify, and retard our experience of time - and thereby renew our sense of life itself. That is the reason for every change of scenery and air.”

Ifs Knows Way Years Wells Reason Past Causes Air Youth Habit Speed Preserves Scenery Retard Years Of Life New Habits Change Of Scenery

Author:Thomas Mann

“When I had the youth I had no money, now I have the money I have no time, and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life.”

Ifs Enjoy Youth Enjoy Life No Money

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)

“Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps and backpacks, and Sony personal CD players and head for school.”

Ifs World Different Seems School Culture Universe Class Morning Player Middle Youth Despite Get Up Middle Class Parallels Caps Cds Different Cultures Nike Sony Parallel Universe Levi's Cd Players

Book:No Logo

Source: No Logo

“In these last few days, we were close because we were both mortal men. We saw the same sun and the same twilight, we felt the same pull of the earth beneath our feet. We drank together and broke bread together. We might have made love together, if you had only allowed such a thing. But that’s all changed. You have your youth, yes, and all the dizzying wonder that accompanies the miracle. But I still see death when I look at you. I know now I cannot be your companion, and you cannot be mine”

Ifs Knows Men Looks Made Stills Might Earth Together Lasts Felt Wonder Sun Saws Feet Changed Youth Mines Miracle Bread Mortals Broke Companion Twilight Drank Accompany Lestat De Lioncourt

Author:Anne Rice

“My reasoning, if one can call it that, was inflamed by the scatter shot passions of youth and a literary diet overly rich in the works of Nietzshe, Kerouac, and John Menlove Edwards.”

Ifs Passion Rich Youth Shots Diets Reasoning

Author:Jon Krakauer

“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Seems Age Lasts Emotion Youth Seasons Crisis Finals Cease Plenty Shock Hopeful Resolve Elders Parting Earthquakes Peru

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her.”

Ifs Youth Broken Promise Despair Leaving Passing Passings Deceived Passing By

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Illustrated)

“I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me - for I shall never marry; and I anticipate cares and sorrows just as if I were an old woman, and with the same fearful spirit.”

Ifs Care Age Spirit Childhood Youth Sorrow Old Age Fearful Womanhood Anticipate Old Woman

Book:The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees it as it really is, and cuts his throat. If this be so, I want to be very drunk. The great thing is to live, to clutch at our existence and race away with it in some great and enthralling pursuit. Above all, I must beware of all ultimate questions- they are too maddeningly unanswerable- let me eschew philosophy and burn Omar.”

Source: The Journal of a Disappointed Man

“And even if these scenes from our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender, secret influence that passed from them into us could not rise again. We might be amongst them and move in them; we might remember and love them and be stirred by the sight of them. But it would be like gazing at the photograph of a dead comrade; those are his features, it is his face, and the days we spent together take on a mournful life in the memory; but the man himself it is not.”

Ifs Knows Men Might Would Be Together Remember Faces Moving Given Memories Secret Influence Youth Scene And Love Sight Photograph Features Comrade Gazing

Author:Erich Maria Remarque

“The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers of resilience, self-protection, and self-healing. Unless an event completely shatters the order of one's life, the mind, if it has youth and health and time enough, accepts the inevitable and gets itself ready for the next happening like a grimly dutiful American tourist who, on arriving at a new town, looks around him, takes his bearings, and says, "Well, where do I go from here?”

Source: You Can't Go Home Again

“Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth has been wasted.”

Ifs Has Beens Bigs Reading Actors Names Youth Seven Screens Big Screen

Book:Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero

Source: Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero

“In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In Adrian's terms, I gave up on life, gave up on examining it, took it as it came. And so, for the first time, I began to feel a more general remorse - a feeling somewhere between self-pity and self-hatred - about my whole life. All of it. I had lost the friends of my youth. I had lost the love of my wife. I had abandoned the ambitions I had entertained. I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.”

“George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Said Whole Hands America Growing Wonderful Stage Youth Privilege Obsession Buying Old People God Knows Glorify North America Growing Older

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

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