#youth

I had no idea how free we were. That's how free I was. ↗

— Brendan Cowell

#freedom #youth #freedom

As a very young person, I was ready and willing to explore and try new things, unhampered by the daily routines that adults so often feel obligated to adhere to. ↗

— K. Martin Beckner

#freedom #obligations #youth #freedom

Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily. "I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#joy #youth #art

O you youths, Western youths, So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship, Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost, Pioneers! O pioneers! ↗

— Walt Whitman

#pride #youth #friendship

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence. ↗

— Lyman Bryson

#experience #intelligence #life #youth #age

I never got to see a proper striptease. Not anything even remotely close. I was stupid and went to literary cafés and spent my time on artistic nonsense instead. Now it is too late. I am old and blind. I must content myself with hearing the garments fall. I dictated this. ↗

— Tor Ulven

#resignation #wasted-youth #humor

The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#society #young-people #youth #change

In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives. And when the moment came, our lives -- and time itself -- would speed up. How were we to know that our lives had in any case begun, that some advantage had already been gained, some damage already inflicted? Also, that our release would only be into a larger holding pen, whose boundaries would be at first undiscernible. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#youth #imagination

George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#aging #christian #god #inspirational #jesus

Saw a little girl touch a big bug and shout, "I conquered my fear! YES!" and calmly walk away. I was inspired. ↗

— Nathan Fillion

#fear #inspiration #overcoming-fear #youth #inspirational