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“One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.”

Has Beens Age Common One Thing Youth Discontent

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing-youth's important lesson of self-reliance.”

I Can Important Self One Thing Youth Lessons Slavery Bless Self Reliance Reliance Important Lessons

Book:Slave Narrative Six Pack 2

Source: Slave Narrative Six Pack 2

“One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.”

Doe Different Happens Certain Differences One Thing Youth Aging Expected

Author:Gertrude Stein

“When you're faced with a choice, remember this: Everything else will pass away. Your family. Your friends. Your material possessions. Your beauty. Your youth. Your life. And there is only one thing that remains. Ask yourself: Which are you chasing?”

Remember Choices Asks One Thing Youth Materials Remains Possession Our Family Chasing Passing Away Material Possessions

Author:Yasmin Mogahed

“The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply one thing or two, but a multitude. It is at once both lucid and opaque, it accepts both dark and light, speaks to youth and old age.”

Wells Two Stories Light Age Speak Water Dark Accepting One Thing Youth Mirrors Old Age Multitudes Microscopes Drop Of Water Youth And Old Age Opaque

Book:Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

Source: Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

“One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit it—or when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death.”

Men Years Art Enough Certain Growth Challenges Alive One Thing Security Youth Demand Hunger Maturity Boredom Guarantees Assurance Complacency Curb Sustenance

Author:Vincent Price

“Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?”