#ideals

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ↗

— Samuel Ullman

#deserting #enthusiasm #give #grow #grows

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#establish #fine #fine thing #greater #heart

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed. ↗

— Judith Martin

#behavior #gets #ideals #indeed #just

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#challenged #cherished #concern #deep #determination

A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#ideal #ideals #old #old-age #soul

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#constraints #controlled #ideals #material #much

One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame. ↗

— Libba Bray

#death #libba-bray #love #miss-moore #romantic-ideals

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#daughters #expectations #fathers #ideals #perception

My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today. ↗

— Andre Braugher

#been #commitment #community #family #family life

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England. ↗

— Karel Capek

#cultural #dignity #england #find #freedom