#youthful

Perhaps the only reason they survived, Stencil reasoned, was that they were not alone. God knew how many more there were with a hothouse sense of time, no knowledge of life, and at the mercy of Fortune. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#youthfulness #life

You are never too old to become younger! ↗

— Mae West

#paradox #poetry #story #story-telling #youthfulness

I'm too old to know everything ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humour #youthful-arrogance #arrogance

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#early #early life #imprint #influence #leave

Acting is a youthful profession. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#profession #youthful

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty. ↗

— James D. Watson

#arrogance #belief #both #characterized #found

My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It's pretty incredible. ↗

— Oliver Hudson

#being #energy #her #human #human being

I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure. ↗

— John Woolman

#diversions #flock #going #greatest #greatest pleasure

As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit. ↗

— Taylor Hanson

#art form #discovered #especially #fire #form

• Judge less–or at least later. • Give new ideas and images a chance. • Understand that everyone has his own truth or her own. • Remember: you are not married to any belief, opinion, or ideology. • Expect to discover something delicious every day. (260) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#aging-well #openness #youthfulness #age