young

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
55a3893	I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you're alive is amazing, so you don't get to say 'I'm bored.	bored reprimand inspirational boredom advice young	Louis C.K.
cc9de1b	Thats the spirit-one part brave,three parts fool.	christopher paolini eragon young dragon	Christopher Paolini
b03381c	I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.	young	Dodie Smith (Cassandra Mortmain I Capture the Castle)
a70bf01	At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe.	bell christmas old young	Chris Van Allsburg
c6b6687	Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.	life truth young	Gabriel García Márquez
b6dbab0	Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.	money old imagine know young sarcasm	Oscar Wilde
6031674	I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.	young	Neil Gaiman
35c789c	"I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Maybe your childhood was grim and horrible, but grim and horrible is Okay if it is well done. Don't worry about doing it well yet, though. Just get it down."	memories writing encouragement child young memoir childhood writers	Anne Lamott
5385907	Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious.	character life patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt teenager young	Patricia Highsmith
a4e5fc7	I switched the light out again. The room was totally dark, not even the starlight showing while my eyes adjusted. Perhaps I would ask for one of those LED alarm radios, though I'm very fond of my old brass alarm clock. Once I tied a wasp tot the striking-surface of each of the copper-coloured bells on top, where the little hammer would hit them in the morning when the alarm went off. I always wake up before the alarm goes, so I got to watch.	murder young	Iain Banks
eef3cb2	"You said that you thought Queen Orlagh was waiting for an advantage to declare war. Instead, I think she is trying a new ruler--one she hopes she can trick or replace with another indebted to her. She thinks me young and feckless and means to take my measure." "So what?" I ask. "Our choice is to endure her games, no matter how deadly, or engage in a war we cannot win?" Cardan shakes his head and drinks another cup of tea. "We show her that I am no feckless High King." "And how do we do that?" I ask. "With great difficulty," he says. "Since I fear she is right."	war game right replace trick young	Holly Black
6907455	and sleeping put an end to summer, 1928,	dreams promise young	Ray Bradbury
a865808	Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life.	woman life unnerved emotional paralyzing potential humiliation training discipline scars young	R.A. Salvatore
6056afc	Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.	time nikolai old young	Nikolai Gogol
d9c35b2	Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk to me about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead!	kids youth death life glare glares glaring money-monetary plead buy pleading baby kid cry talk crying talking child children young dead eyes young-adults	V.C. Andrews
538d1a9	It didn't matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young. No he isn't, thought Ender. Small, yes. Bur Bean has been through a battle with a whole army depending on him and on the soldiers that he led. and he performed splendidly, and the won. There's no youth in that. No childhood.	live responsibility good life small young childhood	Orson Scott Card
bbbfe8c	Time makes everything mean and shabby and wrinkled. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful things die young, but that they grow old and mean.	tragedy time youth beauty death shabby wrinkled grow mean old young die	Raymond Chandler
cc32f74	I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes.	dreams strength love older teenagers young	Joyce Carol Oates
f4542e3	Do you remember when we were young and gorgeous?	young	Emily St. John Mandel
82d5591	How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.	left-off pick young	Jodi Picoult
9b0f875	One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.	marriage work god life love potential calling single singleness christian young	Elizabeth George
79f1f84	Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting with ideals. You think that because I can sometimes see what's trivial and what's important in art that I ought to be more virtuous. But I don't want to be virtuous. My charm (if there is any) for you is simply frankness. And experience. Not goodness. I'm not a good man. Perhaps morally I'm younger even than you are. Can you understand that?	virtue good goodness life betrayed bursting younger older trivial ideals virtuous years frank old frankness betray important understand ideal experience charm knowledge betrayal young	John Fowles
5b139b4	He was a very arrogant young man, so full of himself.	man young	Irvine Welsh
c13e756	Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection instead. She had the nearsightedness of youth. She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear yet...She was, after all, on her way to Shiz because she was smart. But there was more than one way to be smart.	fiction youth maguire smart wicked selfishness young	Gregory Maguire
09cfaa4	He's completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke carelessly.	wasted-time smoke cigarette growing-up kid child young childhood memory nostalgia	Rebecca McNutt
b7017e7	All four of us were young and undaunted and our smiles were so strong that it made me smile even then on the couch, with a kind of loss.	undaunted smiles strong young	Markus Zusak
7d9d306	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 have it. When I decided to go to Alaska that April, like Chris McCandless, I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic. I thought climbing the Devils Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams. And I lived to tell my tale.	hopelessness inspiring love teenage life-changing young	Jon Krakauer
006d33d	Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus the majority of parents, without knowing it and without intending it, give very bad examples to their children.	morality example parenting young	Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
145b941	They had lied. Time was not a friend that healed all wounds ;it was the enemy that ravaged and murdered youth.	murder youth lied stranger-in-the-mirror stranger young mirror	Sidney Sheldon
7e7b865	one day I'll be old, without ever having really been young	young passed	Beatrice Sparks
e85ff89	Young warriors are always eager for battle. Old warriors know better.	old warrior young	Robert Ferrigno
5058335	There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.	risk youth teach demand equal kid little much require show child danger children young	Robin Hobb
c0b2d17	"Morrie likes the nickname. "Coach," he says. "All right, I'll be your coach. And you can be my player. You can play all the lovely parts of life that I'm too old for now."	friendship life nickname student old young	Mitch Albom
eac294d	I know, when we are young we cannot entertain the idea another's feelings can be as deep as our own. Our love is so much loftier, our pain so much more intense.	pain feelings youth love young	Raymond E. Feist
1506261	"According to H.G. Wells, you either adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. It is not necessary to change, after all survival is not mandatory This generation might seem arrogant to the older generation due to some reasons. The older generation believes an older person or someone of higher authority is always right and being sceptical is an insult, lol Our generation is full of people who are so skeptical, they wanna know why this is this and that is that, they don't just hear and believe, they hear, hear from other sides, look at it critically and express their opinions based on their conviction. This generation is full of people who are somewhat confident cos they study, they observe and due to these, they are equipped with better information and like you know, knowledge is power. You know right from wrong, you know truth from lies. When you are with those in authority and have this knowledge, an ignorant person of higher authority would be scared of you, feel threatened and might resort to maltreating and frustrating you, defaming your character etc The older generation and the younger generation are usually having misunderstanding because the older generation are being deceived by pride, the younger generation due to their advanced education do not wanna give merit to whom it isn't due. While the older generation postulates that respect is not earned but compulsory for them to be accorded, the younger generation believes respect must be earned. lol The older generation rules by fiction but the younger generation lives by facts. The older generation uses age to oppress, the younger generation uses their knowledge to defend. The older generation believes they can never be wrong, the younger generation wants fair hearing, demands for it, if denied, they take it by force due to the confidence they've built around themselves. The older generation is unfair to the younger generation, there was once a time they were listened to without doubts and opposition, this is the time for the younger generation to be listened to due to advancement in education and exposure. The younger generation, due to their quest for higher knowledge through research, etc, they have realized the consequences of being ignorant and with their power of conviction, they are not letting the older generation have their autocratic ways affect them. To the younger generation, one should be able to prove whatever he says, no more latent heresies and this is what the older generation don't wanna hear of. The older generation wants to continue enslaving the younger generation but the younger generation is more equipped than the older generation and as such, not letting that happen.	aged generation adoption civilization old ignorance respect threat young technology	OMOSOHWOFA CASEY
8fdcf0b	When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older and you pull back on some of that. I think you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain.	pain youth cormac-mc-carthy young	Cormac McCarthy
e74d8b4	Tell her I was young once and star-bright Who am now invisible . . .	poetry henry-and-cato iris-murdoch invisible young	Iris Murdoch
cabc17a	The thing that you don't understand about yourself, Vivian, is that you're not an interesting person. You are pretty, yes - but that's only because you are young. The prettiness will soon fade...What you are, Vivian, is a type of person. To be more specific, you are a type of woman. A tediously common type of woman.	prettiness young	Elizabeth Gilbert
50c779c	Maybe people are younger when they sleep.	youth the-outsiders young	S.E. Hinton
904d043	La juventud es un engano -un engano de la prensa y libros de texto. !La mejor epoca de la vida! [...] La juventud es la epoca mas dificil de la existencia.	youth-age young	Hermann Hesse
2568cfd	What use was utopia without joy, after all? What was the point of all their striving if it did not include the laughter of the young?	youth utopia young	Kim Stanley Robinson
ca67019	The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate.. headed for New York City, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered, was not all that interested. I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me.	struggle graduate world life fresh young	Mitch Albom
392efa5	Forse sapevano, un po' meglio degli altri, decifrare, o magari suscitare, questi segni favorevoli. Le loro orecchie, le loro dita, il loro palato, come se fossero stati costantemente all'erta, aspettavano solo questi istanti propizi, scatenabili con un nonnulla. Ma, in questi momenti in cui si lasciavano trasportare da un sentimento di calma totale, di eternita, che nessuna tensione turbava, in cui tutto era in equilibrio, deliziosamente lento, la forza di quelle gioie esaltava tutto quel che c'era in esse di effimero e fragile.	equilibrio le-cose les-choses perec the-moment the-thing young	Georges Perec
a1021b0	For a while, we just ate like that, a sick old man, a healthy, younger man, both absorbing the quiet of the room. I would say it was an embarrassed silence, but I seemed to be the only one embarrassed.	ill silence healthy old quiet young	Mitch Albom
dbd4efd	Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation. ..What happened to me? I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places.	money live thoughts idealism work life ideas young	Mitch Albom
f1f0324	Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation. ..I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places.	live thoughts idealism work life ideas young university	Mitch Albom
6dfa1d4	What happened to me? I asked myself. Morris's high, smoky voice took me back to my university years, when I thought rich people were evil, a shirt and tie were prison clothes, and life without freedom to get up and go - motorcycle beneath you, breeze in your face, down the streets of Paris, into the mountains of Tibet - was not a good life at all. What happened to me?	travel free life ideal young thought	Mitch Albom
f622e5d	And perhaps I I didn't even understand the young when I was young. That could be true too.	youth out-of-the-loop the-only-story julian-barnes outsider young	Julian Barnes
a1572e4	When you're young--when I was young--you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality.	literature youth reality life passionate the-sense-of-an-ending julian-barnes emotions young	Julian Barnes

55a3893

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you're alive is amazing, so you don't get to say 'I'm bored.

bored reprimand inspirational boredom advice young

Louis C.K.

cc9de1b

Thats the spirit-one part brave,three parts fool.

christopher paolini eragon young dragon

Christopher Paolini

b03381c

I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

young

Dodie Smith (Cassandra Mortmain I Capture the Castle)

a70bf01

At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe.

bell christmas old young

Chris Van Allsburg

c6b6687

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

life truth young

Gabriel García Márquez

b6dbab0

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

money old imagine know young sarcasm

Oscar Wilde

6031674

I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.

young

Neil Gaiman

35c789c

"I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Maybe your childhood was grim and horrible, but grim and horrible is Okay if it is well done. Don't worry about doing it well yet, though. Just get it down."

memories writing encouragement child young memoir childhood writers

Anne Lamott

5385907

Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious.

character life patricia-highsmith the-price-of-salt teenager young

Patricia Highsmith

a4e5fc7

I switched the light out again. The room was totally dark, not even the starlight showing while my eyes adjusted. Perhaps I would ask for one of those LED alarm radios, though I'm very fond of my old brass alarm clock. Once I tied a wasp tot the striking-surface of each of the copper-coloured bells on top, where the little hammer would hit them in the morning when the alarm went off. I always wake up before the alarm goes, so I got to watch.

murder young

Iain Banks

eef3cb2

"You said that you thought Queen Orlagh was waiting for an advantage to declare war. Instead, I think she is trying a new ruler--one she hopes she can trick or replace with another indebted to her. She thinks me young and feckless and means to take my measure." "So what?" I ask. "Our choice is to endure her games, no matter how deadly, or engage in a war we cannot win?" Cardan shakes his head and drinks another cup of tea. "We show her that I am no feckless High King." "And how do we do that?" I ask. "With great difficulty," he says. "Since I fear she is right."

war game right replace trick young

Holly Black

6907455

and sleeping put an end to summer, 1928,

dreams promise young

Ray Bradbury

a865808

Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life.

woman life unnerved emotional paralyzing potential humiliation training discipline scars young

R.A. Salvatore

6056afc

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

time nikolai old young

Nikolai Gogol

d9c35b2

Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk to me about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead!

kids youth death life glare glares glaring money-monetary plead buy pleading baby kid cry talk crying talking child children young dead eyes young-adults

V.C. Andrews

538d1a9

It didn't matter he was brilliant and dedicated and good. He was a child. He was young. No he isn't, thought Ender. Small, yes. Bur Bean has been through a battle with a whole army depending on him and on the soldiers that he led. and he performed splendidly, and the won. There's no youth in that. No childhood.

live responsibility good life small young childhood

Orson Scott Card

bbbfe8c

Time makes everything mean and shabby and wrinkled. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful things die young, but that they grow old and mean.

tragedy time youth beauty death shabby wrinkled grow mean old young die

Raymond Chandler

cc32f74

I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes.

dreams strength love older teenagers young

Joyce Carol Oates

f4542e3

Do you remember when we were young and gorgeous?

young

Emily St. John Mandel

82d5591

How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.

left-off pick young

Jodi Picoult

9b0f875

One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.

marriage work god life love potential calling single singleness christian young

Elizabeth George

79f1f84

Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of life than you, I've lived more and betrayed more and seen more betrayed. At your age one is bursting with ideals. You think that because I can sometimes see what's trivial and what's important in art that I ought to be more virtuous. But I don't want to be virtuous. My charm (if there is any) for you is simply frankness. And experience. Not goodness. I'm not a good man. Perhaps morally I'm younger even than you are. Can you understand that?

virtue good goodness life betrayed bursting younger older trivial ideals virtuous years frank old frankness betray important understand ideal experience charm knowledge betrayal young

John Fowles

5b139b4

He was a very arrogant young man, so full of himself.

man young

Irvine Welsh

c13e756

Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection instead. She had the nearsightedness of youth. She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear yet...She was, after all, on her way to Shiz because she was smart. But there was more than one way to be smart.

fiction youth maguire smart wicked selfishness young

Gregory Maguire

09cfaa4

He's completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke carelessly.

wasted-time smoke cigarette growing-up kid child young childhood memory nostalgia

Rebecca McNutt

b7017e7

All four of us were young and undaunted and our smiles were so strong that it made me smile even then on the couch, with a kind of loss.

undaunted smiles strong young

Markus Zusak

7d9d306

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 have it. When I decided to go to Alaska that April, like Chris McCandless, I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic. I thought climbing the Devils Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams. And I lived to tell my tale.

hopelessness inspiring love teenage life-changing young

Jon Krakauer

006d33d

Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus the majority of parents, without knowing it and without intending it, give very bad examples to their children.

morality example parenting young

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

145b941

They had lied. Time was not a friend that healed all wounds ;it was the enemy that ravaged and murdered youth.

murder youth lied stranger-in-the-mirror stranger young mirror

Sidney Sheldon

7e7b865

one day I'll be old, without ever having really been young

young passed

Beatrice Sparks

e85ff89

Young warriors are always eager for battle. Old warriors know better.

old warrior young

Robert Ferrigno

5058335

There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.

risk youth teach demand equal kid little much require show child danger children young

Robin Hobb

c0b2d17

"Morrie likes the nickname. "Coach," he says. "All right, I'll be your coach. And you can be my player. You can play all the lovely parts of life that I'm too old for now."

friendship life nickname student old young

Mitch Albom

eac294d

I know, when we are young we cannot entertain the idea another's feelings can be as deep as our own. Our love is so much loftier, our pain so much more intense.

pain feelings youth love young

Raymond E. Feist

1506261

"According to H.G. Wells, you either adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. It is not necessary to change, after all survival is not mandatory This generation might seem arrogant to the older generation due to some reasons. The older generation believes an older person or someone of higher authority is always right and being sceptical is an insult, lol Our generation is full of people who are so skeptical, they wanna know why this is this and that is that, they don't just hear and believe, they hear, hear from other sides, look at it critically and express their opinions based on their conviction. This generation is full of people who are somewhat confident cos they study, they observe and due to these, they are equipped with better information and like you know, knowledge is power. You know right from wrong, you know truth from lies. When you are with those in authority and have this knowledge, an ignorant person of higher authority would be scared of you, feel threatened and might resort to maltreating and frustrating you, defaming your character etc The older generation and the younger generation are usually having misunderstanding because the older generation are being deceived by pride, the younger generation due to their advanced education do not wanna give merit to whom it isn't due. While the older generation postulates that respect is not earned but compulsory for them to be accorded, the younger generation believes respect must be earned. lol The older generation rules by fiction but the younger generation lives by facts. The older generation uses age to oppress, the younger generation uses their knowledge to defend. The older generation believes they can never be wrong, the younger generation wants fair hearing, demands for it, if denied, they take it by force due to the confidence they've built around themselves. The older generation is unfair to the younger generation, there was once a time they were listened to without doubts and opposition, this is the time for the younger generation to be listened to due to advancement in education and exposure. The younger generation, due to their quest for higher knowledge through research, etc, they have realized the consequences of being ignorant and with their power of conviction, they are not letting the older generation have their autocratic ways affect them. To the younger generation, one should be able to prove whatever he says, no more latent heresies and this is what the older generation don't wanna hear of. The older generation wants to continue enslaving the younger generation but the younger generation is more equipped than the older generation and as such, not letting that happen.

aged generation adoption civilization old ignorance respect threat young technology

OMOSOHWOFA CASEY

8fdcf0b

When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older and you pull back on some of that. I think you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain.

pain youth cormac-mc-carthy young

Cormac McCarthy

e74d8b4

Tell her I was young once and star-bright Who am now invisible . . .

poetry henry-and-cato iris-murdoch invisible young

Iris Murdoch

cabc17a

The thing that you don't understand about yourself, Vivian, is that you're not an interesting person. You are pretty, yes - but that's only because you are young. The prettiness will soon fade...What you are, Vivian, is a type of person. To be more specific, you are a type of woman. A tediously common type of woman.

prettiness young

Elizabeth Gilbert

50c779c

Maybe people are younger when they sleep.

youth the-outsiders young

S.E. Hinton

904d043

La juventud es un engano -un engano de la prensa y libros de texto. !La mejor epoca de la vida! [...] La juventud es la epoca mas dificil de la existencia.

youth-age young

Hermann Hesse

2568cfd

What use was utopia without joy, after all? What was the point of all their striving if it did not include the laughter of the young?

youth utopia young

Kim Stanley Robinson

ca67019

The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate.. headed for New York City, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered, was not all that interested. I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me.

struggle graduate world life fresh young

Mitch Albom

392efa5

Forse sapevano, un po' meglio degli altri, decifrare, o magari suscitare, questi segni favorevoli. Le loro orecchie, le loro dita, il loro palato, come se fossero stati costantemente all'erta, aspettavano solo questi istanti propizi, scatenabili con un nonnulla. Ma, in questi momenti in cui si lasciavano trasportare da un sentimento di calma totale, di eternita, che nessuna tensione turbava, in cui tutto era in equilibrio, deliziosamente lento, la forza di quelle gioie esaltava tutto quel che c'era in esse di effimero e fragile.

equilibrio le-cose les-choses perec the-moment the-thing young

Georges Perec

a1021b0

For a while, we just ate like that, a sick old man, a healthy, younger man, both absorbing the quiet of the room. I would say it was an embarrassed silence, but I seemed to be the only one embarrassed.

ill silence healthy old quiet young

Mitch Albom

dbd4efd

Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation. ..What happened to me? I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places.

money live thoughts idealism work life ideas young

Mitch Albom

f1f0324

Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation. ..I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places.

live thoughts idealism work life ideas young university

Mitch Albom

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What happened to me? I asked myself. Morris's high, smoky voice took me back to my university years, when I thought rich people were evil, a shirt and tie were prison clothes, and life without freedom to get up and go - motorcycle beneath you, breeze in your face, down the streets of Paris, into the mountains of Tibet - was not a good life at all. What happened to me?

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Mitch Albom

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And perhaps I I didn't even understand the young when I was young. That could be true too.

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Julian Barnes

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When you're young--when I was young--you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality.

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Julian Barnes