#ear

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age. ↗

— Idries Shah

#becoming #future #laziness #rehearsal #age

Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#fear #jodi-picoult #lone-wolf #wisdom #age

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#childhood #coming-of-age #earthsea #age

We have progressed from the stone age and moved on to the age of stone hearted people ↗

— Amit Abraham

#stone-age #stone-hearted #age

... the blast signatures of a detonated supernova and that of a nuclear bomb are identical. ↗

— Eric Chaisson

#nuclear-bomb #supernova #age

I suppose that one’s years spent living do not reflect a measure of our souls or strength of character. ↗

— Peter Koevari

#character #year #age

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. ↗

— Jean Toomer

#learn #life #rope

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. One may almost doubt if the wisest [hu]man has learned anything of absolute value by living. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#ageing #learning #youth #age

Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#fear #hate #anger

Do not allow yourself to be blinded by fear and anger. Everything is only as it is. ↗

— Yuki Urushibara

#fear #hatred #manga #realization #spirit