#out

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#bed #better #bring #come #dinner

There is no man...however wise, who has not at some period in his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man... ↗

— Marcel Proust

#youth #life

The thing about me and books is that whichever one I’m reading always reminds me of whatever’s happening in my life during that time. ↗

— Lauren Barnholdt

#kelsey #reading #the-thing-about-the-truth #life

Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it. ↗

— Elizabeth Lowell

#life-journey #outsider #life

All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself ↗

— Zelda Fitzgerald

#youth #life

I wouldn't sing any of this if I didn't think it might help someone. Especially girls. It's so hard for girls - pressure to like this band or that band, dress like this but not like that - do whatever will make you blend into the wall. But girls are so passionate inside, waiting for an outlet - and that's what I try to encourage: be who you are, take control of your life. ↗

— Lacey Mosley

#encouragement #flyleaf #girls #hard #help

Don't just expect the scouts to find you. Go to camps, clinics and make sure you are seen. ↗

— Paul Quantrill

#clinics #expect #find #go #just

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing. ↗

— Aristotle

#youth #life

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#life #life

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for. ↗

— Al Alvarez

#done #ego #i #i think #interesting