100 Quotes About Young

There are a lot of things that we wish we could have done when we were younger. Sure, we may have been a bit reckless and reckless people may have been a little reckless, but there is no denying that some little things we do as adults just seem to make us more mature and wiser than those who don’t. In fact, some of the greatest political speeches, songs, and novels were written by those who had more experience than those who may have been more capable. It’s not too late to start being a little more responsible as an adult Read more

Let these young quotes inspire you to live a little more mindfully and with a little more maturity.

Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those...
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Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long. Good things come to those who wait. Jess C. Scott
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A fit, healthy body–that is the best fashion statement Jess C. Scott
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V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love. Jess C. Scott
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My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism. Jess C. Scott
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Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay. Jess C. Scott
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I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do – to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like. Jess C. Scott
It isn't about love,
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It isn't about love, " Vee said. "It's about fun. Becca Fitzpatrick
I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
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I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness. Dodie Smith
Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and...
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Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life. Unknown
Please, touch me, I pray.
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Please, touch me, I pray. Jess C. Scott
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Enjoy your youth. You'll never be younger thanyou are at this very moment. Chad Sugg
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I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored. Louis C.K.
You can only be young once. But you can always...
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You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. Pat Monahan
The human body is the best work of art.
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The human body is the best work of art. Jess C. Scott
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured...
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Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it. Oscar Wilde
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I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better? Jess C. Scott
[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers[novan]: and some...
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[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we're good with our mouths too...(~ IM chat with Novan Chang, 18, bassist) Jess C. Scott
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THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell you And you will turn back The hands of time. Smile, I tell you And you will reflect The face of the divine. Sing, I tell you And all the angels will sing with you! Cry, I tell you And the reflections found in your pool of tears -Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterday To guide you through the fears of tomorrow. Suzy Kassem
When we are young we squander time as though it...
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When we are young we squander time as though it were unlimited; When we grow older, then like beggars we wish for crumbs of remembrance... Nanette L. Avery
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Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The road is long, we carry on, try to have...
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The road is long, we carry on, try to have fun in the meantime. Lana Del Rey
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It frightens me that I can't do anything sensible about it."" Are you scared that you'll wind up with a boring job where you have to see the same people every day and drink instant coffee?"" I'm more scared that I'll forget the feeling I have now."" Kind of like how you forgot how it feels to be three years old."" That surely I'll wind up thinking I was so young, I didn't really understand everything. It bothers me that I know I will be wrong. Gunnar Ardelius
I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.
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I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge. Neil Gaiman
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It's the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed, and the sound in the kitchen; a slow hum of a song and his movements, picking things to eat. The way I could observe him, for hours, just go on with his day — or as he sleeps — simply breathing in and out, in and out, and it's like the hymn that sings me to peace. I know the world is still out there and I know I'm not yet friendly to its pace, but as long as I know him with me, here, there, somewhere — us — I know I have a chance. . Charlotte Eriksson
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What is this thing you call substance abuse? All I wanna do is forget and get loose. Drinking and smoking over and over What's so great about a life that's sober? There's nothing cool about being young When the monsters of night have stolen the sun. I'm tired of searching for words in the sky. All I wanna do is drink and die. Nothing is real. It's all a big lie. All I wanna do is drink and die. There's nothing cool about being young When the monsters of night have stolen the sun. Unknown
Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more...
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Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Life is a process during which one initially gets less...
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Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Of course, things always seem more impressive when you're a...
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Of course, things always seem more impressive when you're a little kid. Emily Fridlund
Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that...
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Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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The stars are brilliant at this time of night and I wander these streets like a ritual I don’t dare to break for darling, the times are quite glorious. I left him by the water’s edge, still waving long after the ship was goneand if someone would have screamed my name I wouldn’t have heard for I’ve said goodbye so many times in my short life that farewells are a muscular task and I’ve taught them well. There’s a place by the side of the railway near the lake where I grew up and I used to go there to burry things and start anew. I used to go there to say goodbye. I was young and did not know many people but I had hidden things inside that I never dared to show and in silence I tried to kill them, one way or the other, leaving sin on my body scrubbing tears off with saltand I built my rituals in farewells. Endings I still cling to. So I go to the ocean to say goodbye. He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my headand though he said he’d come back one day I know a broken promise from a right onefor I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can’t be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay. I turned away from the oceanas not to fall for its pleafor it used to seduce and consume meand there was this one nighta few years back and I was not yet accustomed to farewellsand just like now I stood waving long after the ship was gone. But I was younger then and easily fooledand the ocean was deep and dark and blueand I took my shoes off to let the water freeze my bones. I waded until I could no longer walk and it was too cold to swim but still I kept on walking at the bottom of the sea for I could not tell the difference between the ocean and the lack of someone I loved and I had not yet learned how the task of moving on is as necessary as survival. Then days passed by and I spent them with my work and now I’m writing letters I will never dare to send. But there is this one day every year or sowhen the burden gets too heavyand I collect my belongings I no longer needand make my way to the ocean to burn and drown and start anewand it is quite wonderful, setting fire to my chains and flames on written wordsand I stand there, starring deep into the heat until they’re all gone. Nothing left to hold me back. You kissed me that morning as if you’d never done it before and never would again and now I write another letter that I will never dare to send, collecting memories of loss like chains wrapped around my veins, and if you see a fire from the shore tonightit’s my chains going up in flames. The time of moon i quite glorious. We could have been so glorious. Charlotte Eriksson
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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
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I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do---the actual act of writing---turns out to be the best part. It's like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward. . Anne Lamott
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I don't know where to start, " one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Maybe your childhood was grim and horrible, but grim and horrible is Okay if it is well done. Don't worry about doing it well yet, though. Just get it down. . Anne Lamott
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You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters. And you have to keep going even on days you can't find that belief. If you can't do it for yourself, you do it for all the other young souls who need to be shown that things are possible. That they too can do that thing they dream of. You do it despite the doubts and the struggles. You do it because it's what you came here to do. That's what makes an artist. Charlotte Eriksson
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Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting with ideals. You think that because I can sometimes see what's trivial and what's important in art that I ought to be more virtuous. But I don't want to be virtuous. My charm (if there is any) for you is simply frankness. And experience. Not goodness. I'm not a good man. Perhaps morally I'm younger even than you are. Can you understand that? . John Fowles
The more risk you can take upfront in life, the...
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The more risk you can take upfront in life, the better off you will be later. Tarun Sharma
One of the first steps to successful leadership is to...
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One of the first steps to successful leadership is to always forget your age and remember your dream regularly. Israelmore Ayivor
One of the first steps to successful leadership is to...
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One of the first steps to successful leadership is to forget your age and remember your dream. Israelmore Ayivor
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Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus the majority of parents, without knowing it and without intending it, give very bad examples to their children. AnneRobertJacques Turgot
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If you have ever come up against Nothing you have no idea how it can scare you out of your wits. When I was a child I used to be afraid of Something in the dark. I know now that the most fearful thing about the dark is that we may find Nothing in it. Howard Spring
Life, to me, is like fishing: you won’t catch anything...
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Life, to me, is like fishing: you won’t catch anything until you start, and every year you get older is another year the fish might slip through the net. Alex Staniforth
Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were...
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Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born. Karl Lagerfeld
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young. Nikolai Gogol
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He no longer loves the person whom he loved ten years ago. I quite believe it. She is no longer the same, nor is he. He was young, and she also; she is quite different. He would perhaps love her yet, if she were what she was then. Blaise Pascal
Don't you think you're quite young?'' I'm twenty-one, ' said...
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Don't you think you're quite young?'' I'm twenty-one, ' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old. Paulo Coelho
I think it’s the books that you read when you’re...
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I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever. J.k. Rowling
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I spent days and nights staring at the blank page, searching the deepest corners of my mind: who have I been, what have I seen, what did I learn? I thought about all the nights I've spent outside, all the times I laid down to cry and how I took a deep breath every morning and decided to simply go on. Because what else is there to do? Decide that this is it? I quit, I'm done? Oh if I could find words to justify those feelings I've carried. I could write the thickest of books with explosions of emotions from a young girl's lost heart. I could make you see, make you hear, make you feel, at least a tiny fragment of what's out there. . Charlotte Eriksson
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Some people say they have 20 years experience, when in reality, they have 1 year's experience repeated 20 times. (Stephen M R Covey to Richie Norton when Norton asked if he was too young to train older executives for Covey.) Richie Norton
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I want to learn how to speak to anyone at any time and make us both feel a little bit better, lighter, richer, with no commitments of ever meeting again. I want to learn how to stand wherever with whoever and still feel stable. I want to learn how to unlock the locks to our minds, my mind, so that when I hear opinions or views that don’t match up with mine, I can still listen and understand. I want to burn up lifeless habits of following maps and to-do lists, concentrated liquids to burn my mind and throatand I want to go back to the way nature shaped me. I want to learn to go on well with whatever I have in my hands at the momentin a natural state of mind, certain like the sea. I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea. Charlotte Eriksson
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It's weird how much people change... It's kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there's no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you're no longer a kid but a "young adult", and after that you're a totally different person. Maybe even a less happy person. Maybe even a worse one. Lauren Oliver
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Young people today are deeply passionate and crave authentic life based on truth. They're hungry to make a difference. They're willing to take a stand for whatever they believe, even to die for a cause. When they sell out to Jesus, they'll pursue a standard of righteousness that is greater than anything you and I ever saw growing up. Don't water it down. Don't lower the standard. And don't just settle for raising it-raise it higher. Believe in your children. Talk with them. Speak well of them. Encourage them. Pray for them. Celebrate the victories with them. Affirm their growth. We can raise a generation that, although they'll make mistakes, will sell out completely when Jesus grips them. They'll give Him everything. They'll make you proud by being even weirder than you are. Craig Groeschel
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34. Sexual contact between a boy and a girl is a progressive thing. In other words, the amount of touching and caressing and kissing that occurs in the early days tends to increase as they become more familiar and at ease with one another. Likewise, the amount of contact necessary to excite one another increases day by day, leading in many cases to an ultimate act of sin and its inevitable consequence. This progression must be consciously resisted by Christian young people who want to serve God and live by His standards. They can resist this trend by placing deliberate controls on the physical aspect of their relationship, right from the first date. James C. Dobson
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Dr. Richard Selzer is a surgeon and a favorite author of mine. He writes the most beautiful and compassionate descriptions of his patients and the human dramas they confront. In his book Letters to a Young Doctor, he said that most young people seem to be protected for a time by an imaginary membrane that shields them from horror. They walk in it every day but are hardly aware of its presence. As the immune system protects the human body from the unseen threat of harmful bacteria, so this mythical membrane guards them from life-threatening situations. Not every young person has this protection, of course, because children do die of cancer, congenital heart problems, and other disorders. But most of them are shielded–and don’t realize it. Then, as years roll by, one day it happens. Without warning, the membrane tears, and horror seeps into a person’s life or into the life of a loved one. It is at this moment that an unexpected theological crisis presents itself. James C. Dobson
The idea that all people can and should live together...
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The idea that all people can and should live together in peace is not really a new one - but yet in practice it is very young indeed. Christina Engela
We developed a firm, practical feeling of solidarity, which grew,...
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We developed a firm, practical feeling of solidarity, which grew, on the battlefield, into the best thing that the war produced - comradeship in arms. Erich Maria Remarque
And sleeping put an end to summer, 1928,
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And sleeping put an end to summer, 1928, Ray Bradbury
Don't expect the unexpected. Let the unexpected expect you.
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Don't expect the unexpected. Let the unexpected expect you. Polkadot
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To the young woman I say, This is the moment in your life when he who is wooing you will be at his kindest. And if you do not see kindness in the man you are dating, beware! For the partnership you are looking for will be nourished and nurtured only on the basis of a love that is not arrogant or prideful, but kind. Ravi Zacharias
Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must...
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Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap.... Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: break up your fallow ground, sow not among thorns. J.C. Ryle
Old or young, light or dark, full or frail, every...
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Old or young, light or dark, full or frail, every woman has qualities that make her beautiful. Brownell Landrum
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The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate.. headed for New York City, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered, was not all that interested. I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me. Mitch Albom
Because I know from experience that sometimes it's only the...
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Because I know from experience that sometimes it's only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world. Diana Peterfreund
Dear young aspiring leader, one day you will be in...
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Dear young aspiring leader, one day you will be in a position of power. That shouldn't let you enslave nor look down upon others, but aim to influence change for the benefit of future generations. Gugu Mona
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I think adults must get sort of worn away over time, like rocks out at sea, but remain who they are, just slower and grayer with those funny vertical wrinkles in front of their ears. But the young are a different shape from one week to the next. To know us is to run alongside us, like someone trying to shout through the window of a moving train. Eve Chase
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There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older. Criss Jami
I have already lost the knowledge of the word whose...
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I have already lost the knowledge of the word whose sound has the shape of a soul. But perhaps it's not too late. Come with me. Hurry now. We still have a chance to be young. Dexter Palmer
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Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age. Israelmore Ayivor
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Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark. Israelmore Ayivor
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We cannot afford to let the ideas of our young generation go untapped or unbacked. Sharad Vivek Sagar
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You were not born to just go to school and work, Discover the world and enjoy your life while you're still young El Fuego
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As I indicated in an earlier chapter, it is so important to pause and think through some of these basic issues while you are young, before the pressures of job and family become distracting. Everyone must deal with the eternal questions sooner or later. You will benefit, I think, from doing that work now. As I said earlier, whether you are an atheist, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew, a New Ager, an agnostic, or a Christian, the questions confronting the human family are the same. Only the answers will differ. James C. Dobson
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When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older and you pull back on some of that. I think you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain. Cormac McCarthy
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I knew that most people would consider us too young to talk about lifelong commitments or marriage, but I couldn’t imagine taking her to bed without that promise. Even if it meant never being with her, I didn’t want to have one desperate, hurried, hidden night. I wanted to put a ring on her finger. I wanted a future–or nothing. I knew, in her heart, that she would want that, too Beth Fantaskey
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If you fall in love, you feel forever young. Lailah Gifty Akita
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A culture which doesn't believe in region and religion is like a rock music, noise for old generation & nirvana for the young ones. Megha Khare
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Being captain of such a vessel was not a stressful job, despite the sheer size of the thing. Everything was automated, and this meant that this behemoth could be efficiently handled by a far less seasoned captain. Besides, hiring mature skippers with actual experience would cost real money. And hey, the computers ran everything anyway — and that’s how Bran Johannsen enters this story — as a fine young inexperienced graduate of the Merchant Space Academy in Mars City, who only got his Executive Officer’s ticket four short years ago. . Christina Engela
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I took him to the river and said “let’s watch something drown, ” So he took a stoneand I took my necklaceand we threw it all together, the way I always think I will get better in July. Things will change and sounds won’t acheand I gave my heart to uncertainty so many times, and so I took him to the river, threw the necklace in the river to slowly watch it drown, or burn, or fade awaylike I’ve done so many times. Charlotte Eriksson
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It all takes time and lessons and places, but I’m learning to listen to my restless heart, telling me to “go, go, go! Charlotte Eriksson
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The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing. J.m. Barrie
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Some people are just sad when there aren't talking squirrels.” –Lily Winter Richard Due
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Odd names: Winter, Autumn–they almost sound as if someone just made them up.” –Dubb Richard Due
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Tavin cupped his hands to his mouth. “Here, dragon-dragon-dragon! ” he yelled. Lily stared in amazement. Well, that was bold, she thought, and stupid. Richard Due
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You won't find the tales I bear in any books. .. My tales are from the Moon Realm.” –Ebb Autumn Richard Due
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But–" yelped Twizbang, “Greydor will eat us! Richard Due
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You haven't lived life to the fullest until you've found something worth dying for Luke Edison
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You'll never be as OK with the thought of dying as you are in the moments when you know that you are truly living Luke Edison
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It is good to be willing to stand as a hero, but you must also be willing to fall as a hero Luke Edison
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I was the first face you saw when you were born, you were bald as my hair ran black. Now yours the last face I saw before I died, your hair ran black, as I was bald. Anthony Liccione
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I put my hands behind my head and lay on my back, trying to hold on to the memories of my family. Their faces seemed to be far off somewhere in my mind, and to get to them I had to bring up painful memories. Ishmael Beah
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I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know. Ishmael Beah
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Old man with a young mind is much younger than the young man with an old mind! Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I'm trying. John OCallaghan
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Good to know we're all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective. Alexander William Gaskarth
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A young hero is the world's greatest attraction. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. John Locke
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Out here you need to live in the moments. Watch the world. You're a young man, Jal, a child who's refused to grow up. Do it now, or you'll die a young man. Mark Lawrence
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Stop writing caption. Go action! Lenang Manggala
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My wakeup call wasn’t some light switch of empowerment. From as early as preschool I feared that if I didn’t grow up to be the pretty princess men fawned over, I was a failure. That mentality was my disease. It got me raped. It made me feel dirty and devalued because my cherry wasn’t popped on a bed of rose petals. It fueled an adolescence juggling starvation and vomiting until my throat bled out and my stomach acid burned through the plumbing. It made me snort coke, smoke meth, and routinely gulp down narcotic petri dishes in hopes of obtaining hallucinogenic intimacy with junkie boyfriends. But most of all, it made me waste my youth chasing, obsessing over, fighting for, worshipping, clinging to, and crying over one after another loser. At some point, I just quit giving a fuck. Maggie Georgiana Young
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Incarceration is when nobody writes a happy ending for a woman without a man. Maggie Georgiana Young
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She is young and beautiful. She has no problems with men. Ljupka Cvetanova