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![Seth Godin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1355799076i/1791._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.”
― Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
― Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
![Sierra D. Waters](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1483159994i/14678980._UX200_CR0,59,200,200_.jpg)
“Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn't even taken a shower, and I did not put on an ounce of makeup. I grabbed a worn out black oversized jacket to cover myself with even though it is warm outside. I have made conscious decisions lately to look like less of what I felt a male would want to see. I want to disappear.”
― Debbie.
― Debbie.
“Our freedoms are vanishing. If you do not get active to take a stand now against all that is wrong while we still can, then maybe one of your children may elect to do so in the future, when it will be far more riskier — and much, much harder.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
![Christopher Hitchens](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1434046956i/3956._UY200_CR23,0,200,200_.jpg)
“If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically self-contradictory: 'Only if I did not know that I was doing so.' To go through the entire experience once more would be banal and Sisyphean—even if it did build muscle—whereas to wish to be young again and to have the benefit of one's learned and acquired existence is not at all to wish for a repeat performance, or a Groundhog Day. And the mind ought to, but cannot, set some limits to wish-thinking. All right, same me but with more money, an even sturdier penis, slightly different parents, a briefer latency period… the thing is absurd. I seriously would like to know what it was to be a woman, but like blind Tiresias would also want the option of re-metamorphosing if I wished. How terrible it is that we have so many more desires than opportunities.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
![Oscar Wilde](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1673611182i/3565._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
![Walt Whitman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1392303683i/1438._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,
Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,
Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine, one of the nation, of many nations, the smallest the same and the the largest”
― Song of Myself
Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,
Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,
Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine, one of the nation, of many nations, the smallest the same and the the largest”
― Song of Myself
![Tom Giaquinto](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1335677931i/5826066._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“Sometimes you just have to jump in a mud puddle because it's there. Never get so old that you forget about having fun.”
― Be A Good Human
― Be A Good Human
![Friedrich Nietzsche](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651474065i/1938._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
“Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.”
― The Servant as Leader
― The Servant as Leader
“Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.”
― Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
― Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
![Francesca Lia Block](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1530045619i/9072._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“I'd sit around dreaming that the boys I saw at shows or at work - the boys with silver earrings and big boots - would tell me I was beautiful, take me home and feed me Thai food or omelets and undress me and make love to me all night with the palm trees whispering windsongs about a tortured gleaming city and the moonlight like flame melting our candle bodies.”
― The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
― The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
![Leon Trotsky](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1659538056i/65974._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]
In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave me the happiness of being her husband. During the almost forty years of our life together she remained an inexhaustible source of love, magnanimity, and tenderness. She underwent great sufferings, especially in the last period of our lives. But I find some comfort in the fact that she also knew days of happiness.
For forty-three years of my conscious life I have remained a revolutionist; for forty-two of them I have fought under the banner of Marxism. If I had to begin all over again I would of course try to avoid this or that mistake, but the main course of my life would remain unchanged. I shall die a proletarian revolutionist, a Marxist, a dialectical materialist, and, consequently, an irreconcilable atheist. My faith in the communist future of mankind is not less ardent, indeed it is firmer today, than it was in the days of my youth.
Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.”
―
In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave me the happiness of being her husband. During the almost forty years of our life together she remained an inexhaustible source of love, magnanimity, and tenderness. She underwent great sufferings, especially in the last period of our lives. But I find some comfort in the fact that she also knew days of happiness.
For forty-three years of my conscious life I have remained a revolutionist; for forty-two of them I have fought under the banner of Marxism. If I had to begin all over again I would of course try to avoid this or that mistake, but the main course of my life would remain unchanged. I shall die a proletarian revolutionist, a Marxist, a dialectical materialist, and, consequently, an irreconcilable atheist. My faith in the communist future of mankind is not less ardent, indeed it is firmer today, than it was in the days of my youth.
Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.”
―
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert agent, professions that require a great deal of bravery and risk and putting oneself in grave danger in order to complete the mission. Even though I did not become all those things, and unless my predisposition, in its youngest years, already had me leaning towards them, the interest that was there still shaped my philosophies. To this day I honor risk and sacrifice for the good of others - my views on life and love are heavily influenced by this.”
― Healology
― Healology
![Margaret Atwood](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1282859073i/3472._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.”
― The Year of the Flood
― The Year of the Flood
![Leanne Hall](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1600901505i/3491812._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“They envy your youth. You two are like exotic creatures from the land of the young.’
I’ve never understood all that these-are-the-best-years-of-your-life crap. If this is as good as it gets then I might as well quit now. Let me get to the shimmery oasis of adulthood.”
― This Is Shyness
I’ve never understood all that these-are-the-best-years-of-your-life crap. If this is as good as it gets then I might as well quit now. Let me get to the shimmery oasis of adulthood.”
― This Is Shyness
![A.E. Housman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1226281594i/38069._UX200_CR0,20,200,200_.jpg)
“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,
But young men think it is, and we were young.”
― More Poems
But young men think it is, and we were young.”
― More Poems
![Glenway Wescott](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1423661279i/123023._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.”
― The Pilgrim Hawk
― The Pilgrim Hawk
![Daphne du Maurier](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1422444467i/2001717._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“The warm night claimed her. In a moment it was part of her. She walked on the grass, and her shoes were instantly soaked. She flung up her arms to the sky. Power ran to her fingertips. Excitement was communicated from the waiting trees, and the orchard, and the paddock; the intensity of their secret life caught at her and made her run. It was nothing like the excitement of ordinary looking forward, of birthday presents, of Christmas stockings, but the pull of a magnet - her grandfather had shown her once how it worked, little needles springing to the jaws - and now night and the sky above were a vast magnet, and the things that waited below were needles, caught up in the great demand. ("The Pool")”
― Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories
― Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories
![Roman Payne](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1508982929i/359352._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the song of my gypsy-girl, the great wheel turns over and lands on a minor key. It is then that you come of age and life means nothing to you. To live, to die, to overdose, to fall in a coma in the street... it is all the same. It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there being only life, the young cling to it, they fear death... And they should! ...For they are in life.”
― The Wanderess
― The Wanderess
![Italo Calvino](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1501975461i/155517._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy the fact of being there on the rock, flat mollusk-pulp, damp and happy.”
― Cosmicomics
― Cosmicomics
![James Fenimore Cooper](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1210528548i/9121._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!”
― Last of the Mohicans
― Last of the Mohicans
![Michael Chabon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1515875672i/2715._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“I reflected that it seemed to be in the nature of human beings to spend the first part of their lives mocking the cliches and conventions of their elders and the final part mocking the cliches and conventions of the young.”
― Moonglow
― Moonglow
![Friedrich Nietzsche](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651474065i/1938._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.”
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
![Janis Ian](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1358139468i/128057._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“So remember those who win the game
Lose the love they sought to gain
In debitures of quality and dubious integrity
Their small-town eyes will gape at you
In dull surprise when payment due
Exceeds accounts received at seventeen”
―
Lose the love they sought to gain
In debitures of quality and dubious integrity
Their small-town eyes will gape at you
In dull surprise when payment due
Exceeds accounts received at seventeen”
―
![Steve Berry](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1648578902i/3621._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“I don't think my mum ever understood my love of Doctor Who. Surely her strongest memory would have been me, standing at the top of the stairs, crying about how the "jelly men" were going to get me? Sorry, Mum, for those sleepless nights, but it was with good reason they called it Terror of the Zygons.”
― Behind The Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who
― Behind The Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who
![Friedrich Nietzsche](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651474065i/1938._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence flung at him so strange and overwhelming, that an assumed stupidity is his only refuge.”
― On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
― On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
![Warren Bennis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1533544417i/4993165._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“Neoteny is more than retaining a youthful appearance, although that is often part of it. Neoteny is the retention of all those wonderful qualities that we associate with youth: curiosity, playfulness, eagerness, fearlessness, warmth, energy. Unlike those defeated by time and age, our geezers have remained much like our geeks – open, willing to take risks, hungry for knowledge and experience, courageous, eager to see what the new day brings. Time and lost steal the zest from the unlucky, and leave them looking longingly at the past. Neoteny is a metaphor for the quality – and the gift – that keeps the fortunate of whatever age focused on all marvelous undiscovered things to come.”
― Geeks and Geezers
― Geeks and Geezers
![Maya Angelou](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1379017377i/3503._UX200_CR0,6,200,200_.jpg)
“Youthful cynicism is sad to observe, because it indicates not so much knowledge learned from bitter experiences as insufficient trust even to attempt the future.”
― The Heart of a Woman
― The Heart of a Woman
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