#youth

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#because #long #old #old age #ready

I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#could #damn #feared #i #life

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death. ↗

— Rollo May

#also #being #beyond #childhood #creativity

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth. ↗

— John McCarthy

#knowledge #marxism #misspent #sign #youth

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#could #enough #love #love is #success

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#after #always #aware #become #gone

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#adult #any #become #before #him

Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent. ↗

— Larry Merchant

#mission #much #talent #too #too much

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have! ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#clothing #could #had #i #i wish

Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#august #day #days #dreams #ending