#youth

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#hour #humanity #i #i have learned #learned

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#happiness #hopes #ignorance #invaluable #life

I'd sit around dreaming that the boys I saw at shows or at work - the boys with silver earrings and big boots - would tell me I was beautiful, take me home and feed me Thai food or omelets and undress me and make love to me all night with the palm trees whispering windsongs about a tortured gleaming city and the moonlight like flame melting our candle bodies. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#dreams #love #youth #beauty

It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#important #spirit #you #youth

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years. ↗

— William Godwin

#early #lessons #regulated #their #years

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#become #boyhood #men #must #our

There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do. ↗

— Kim Gordon

#everything #lot #many #more #only

It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur? ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#blessed #days #feet #first #first time

Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#gift #honours #important #lacking #lavished

So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful. ↗

— Goldie Hawn

#curiosity #i #i think #important #important aspect