#youth

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Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afraid, but they don't know of what. They are angry, but they don't know at whom. They are rejected and they don't know why. All they want is to be somebody.


Thomas S. Monson


#self #teenagers #youth #leadership

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.


Bret Easton Ellis


#los-angeles #wisdom #youth #life

There is no man...however wise, who has not at some period in his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man...


Marcel Proust


#youth #life

All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself


Zelda Fitzgerald


#youth #life

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.


Aristotle


#youth #life

What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.


George Bernard Shaw


#knowledge #youth #education

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?


Confucius


#youth #equality

How oddly situated a man is apt to find himself at age thirty-eight! His youth belongs to the distant past. Yet the period of memory beginning with the end of youth and extending to the present has left him not a single vivid impression. And therefore he persists in feeling that nothing more than a fragile barrier separates him from his youth. He is forever hearing with the utmost clarity the sounds of this neighboring domain, but there is no way to penetrate the barrier. Honda felt that his youth had ended with the death of Kiyoaki Matsugae. At that moment something real within him, something that had burned with a vibrant brilliance, suddenly ceased to be. Now, late at night, when Honda grew weary of his legal drafts, he would pick up the dream journal that Kiyoaki had left him and turn over its pages. (...) Since then eighteen years had passed. The border between dream and memory had grown indistinct in Honda’s mind. Because the words contained in this journal, his only souvenir of his friend, had been traced there by Kiyoaki’s own hand, it had profound significance for Honda. These dreams, left like a handful of gold dust in a winnowing pan, were charged with wonder. As time went by, the dreams and the reality took on equal worth among Honda’s diverse memories. What had actually occurred was in the process of merging with what could have occurred. As reality rapidly gave way to dreams, the past seemed very much like the future. When he was young, there had been only one reality, and the future had seemed to stretch before him, swelling with immense possibilities. But as he grew older, reality seemed to take many forms, and it was the past that seemed refracted into innumerable possibilities. Since each of these was linked with its own reality, the line distinguishing dream and reality became all the more obscure. His memories were in constant flux, and had taken on the aspect of a dream.


Yukio Mishima


#dreams #journal #memory #past #time

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.


Cormac McCarthy


#growing-up #innocence #life #loss-of-innocence #truths

God help us for we knew the worst too young.


Rudyard Kipling


#life #youth #experience