#you

Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.” (Wellesly High School commencement speech, “You Are Not Special”, 6-12) ↗

— Teacher David McCullough

#commencement #graduation #read #reading #you-are-not-special

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity. ↗

— Russell Baker

#hazardous #may #solemnity #these #verses

You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think. ↗

— Howard H. Baker, Jr.

#clearly #got #guard #more #speaking

It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it. ↗

— Scott Spencer

#love #youth #life

Most of you are so young you don't know who I am, and that's good. ↗

— Jim Bakker

#good #i #i am #know #most

You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#life

You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian. ↗

— Tammy Faye Bakker

#you

When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginnings and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#hermann-hesse #maturity #roots #soul #youth

Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees it as it really is, and cuts his throat. If this be so, I want to be very drunk. The great thing is to live, to clutch at our existence and race away with it in some great and enthralling pursuit. Above all, I must beware of all ultimate questions- they are too maddeningly unanswerable- let me eschew philosophy and burn Omar. ↗

— W.N.P. Barbellion

#melancholy #philosophy #youth #life

When she wraps her arms around my neck, all I want to do is protect this girl for the rest of my life. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#young-adult-fiction #young-adult-romance #life