#youthfulness

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#amount #certain #democracy #human #implies

The smell of her hair lingered just out of reach of his memory and left him with a nervous hum resonating throughout his body like a child forced to sit in church while the sun was shining outside on a perfectly good summer's day. ↗

— Erik Tomblin

#falling-in-love #infatuation #summer #sweet-abandon #youthfulness

• Judge less–or at least later. • Give new ideas and images a chance. • Understand that everyone has his own truth or her own. • Remember: you are not married to any belief, opinion, or ideology. • Expect to discover something delicious every day. (260) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#aging-well #openness #youthfulness #age

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me! ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#youthfulness #youth

I am leaving now; but know, Katerina Ivanovna, that you indeed love only him. And the more he insults you, the more you love him. That is your strain. You precisely love him as he is, you love him insulting you. If he reformed, you would drop him at once and stop loving him altogether. But you need him in order to continually contemplate your high deed of faithfulness, and to reproach him for his unfaithfulness. And it all comes from your pride. Oh, there is much humility and humiliation in it, but all of it comes from pride. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#extreme-haughtiness #extreme-pride #honor #love #pride

If you still think you're a young pup then you are, no matter what the calendar says ↗

— John Grogan

#youthfulness #life

It's a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond delights in that degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth. ↗

— Criss Jami

#continuous #continuous-improvement #delight #desire #fresh

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#create #good #parties #temporary #youthfulness

But Margaret was at an age when any apprehension, not absolutely based on a knowledge of facts, is easily banished for a time by a bright sunny day, or some happy outward circumstance. And when the brilliant fourteen fine days of October came on, her cares were all blown away as lightly as thistledown, and she thought of nothing but the glories of the forest. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#age

Perhaps the only reason they survived, Stencil reasoned, was that they were not alone. God knew how many more there were with a hothouse sense of time, no knowledge of life, and at the mercy of Fortune. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#youthfulness #life