Ich werde nicht alles erreichen, was ich will, aber ich werde alles probieren, was ich kann.

Who was there to guard youth from pain and death – youth who could not, who had never been able to, guard itself? Did they know too little? Or was it that they knew too...

If you look for endings you can always find one, but I truly felt as if I had used up the last of my youth, if youth is that finite stage of life when it...

In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you...

You were the hardest year of my life and I’ve never been so happy. What does that say about me?

And you might try to hide or protect yourself, or compare the different states of love,but you must not grow up, must not act wise when it comes to love.You must stay foolish and fall...

The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return – that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.

It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.

The most ignorant and wasted youthful generation is the very one that the older generation uses to create social conflicts to their own youthful detriment!

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

I don’t like being with grown-up people. I’ve known that a long time. I don’t like it because I don’t know how to get on with them.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

It seemed unreasonable, unfair, that a woman so young and beautiful should be so exhausted. Of course, it was neither unreasonable nor unfair. Exhaustion pays no mind to age and beauty. Like rain and earthquakes...

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

We were in a phase, through television and the movies, of living only vicariously. Even faintly sordid silliness excited us if it put us in contact with love.

Youth lasts much longer than young people think.

I’m sorry I’m young,” Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. “We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else.” The second part was more a plea, and to her surprise...

There’s nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.

Talent don’t need affiliation.

Looking around today, I see a lot of young people who act as if they have all the time in the world, and older persons who think this attitude is alright. It is unfortunate that...

Youth is feeling seventy years old, misanthropic, and ready to die at fifteen

When he was young, he told her, each phase of his life, each self he tried on, had seemed reassuringly temporary. Its imperfections didn’t matter, because he could easily replace one moment by the next,...

But I recall the springtime of the world as though it were yesterday—those days when we rode together to battle, and those nights when we shook the stars loose from the fresh-painted skies!

When a child keeps asking you to tell him/her a story, what they instinctively really want to know is their true purpose and mission in life. Sadly, this knowledge was never sought out by their...

Think… of the world which you carry within yourself… and set it above everything that you notice about you. Your inmost happening is worth your whole love, that is what you must somehow work at,...

Carrie felt this as a personal reproof. She read “Dora Thorne,” or had a great deal in the past. It seemed only fair to her, but she supposed that people thought it very fine. Now...

May the magic within you shine through!

My youth was the most stubborn, peremptory part of myself. In my most relaxed moments, it governed my being. It pricked up its ears at the banter of eighteen-year-olds on the street. It frankly examined...

WisdomWhen I have ceased to break my wings Against the faultiness of things, And learned that compromises wait Behind each hardly opened gate, When I can look Life in the eyes, Grown calm and very...

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled...

If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I’m on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we’re too old to be young.

Only LEFT and RIGHT hand can hold each other and walk together…Only RIGHTs are enough to say bye.Nobody is perfect in the world, if you Love the perfection of his/her imperfections then LOVE exists.

She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

You young people never say anything. And us old folks don’t know how to stop talking.

It was a strange business and it made a sad and curious impression on me; everything that had belonged to me in these earlier years of my life left me, was alien and lost to...

Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.

He did not alarm her, for she thought she had seen him before in the faces of many women who have no children. Perhaps he is to be found in the faces of some mothers...

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...

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

You’d better make friends with Time, because sooner or later it will catch up with you.

I damned myself for my earlier romanticism. That Croaker who had come north, so thoroughly bemused by the mysterious Lady, was another man. A stripling, filled with the foolish ignorances of youth. Yeah. Sometimes you...

I was so tired of this ceaseless, day-to-day tug-of-war between my hormones and my head, my vanity and my virtue. I felt very much as though I were caught in the middle of some dreadful...

It’s such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do...

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to...

I’m on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.

A mobile device for the youth generation is like instant messaging and the PC for Gen X and Gen Y.

.Ensuring that young people get the rightinformation that will enable them make the rightchoices is a responsibility all citizens must takeseriously

The question remains, does this impact our youth? Because of my exposure to this problem, my unedited affirmative answer would not be suitable for printing. To me, it seems woefully obvious. These problems did not...

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss