“What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.” PassionEnergyMistakeYouthStrongerExcitedViolentIntenseStrongestDurability Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“The most important, the longest lasting, the strongest emotional, and the most practiced memories are the ones that are embedded the deepest in the brain, and because we have retrieved them so many times previously, they are the most able to be retrieved. We all hear about people who can remember their youth, their phone number, or street address from 70 years ago, but they cannot recall what they had for breakfast. The memory of this morning's breakfast wasn't rehearsed, and wasn't very important, so it fades away quickly.” PeopleYearsImportantAbleRememberMemoriesNumbersBrainMorningStreetsYouthEmotionalYears AgoPhonesAddressesLastingStrongestBreakfastFadesRecallsEmbeddedFade AwayPhone Numbers Author:Daniel Levitin
“From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts under some general laws.” FactsLawDesireGroupsYouthStrongest Book:On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection Source: On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection
“Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into the mechanism of the body. It is likewise proportioned to the occasions of life, and strongest in youth when passion is so too.” BodyHandsMightPassionVirtueYouthOccasionsStrongestMechanismModestyProvidence Author:Jeremy Collier
“To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.” MenSometimesHandsSuccessYoungOpportunityWealthPoorHonestyYouthElementsProsperityYoung ManStrongestHonorableCompetenceTainted Author:Orison Swett Marden