“It is not length of life, but depth of life. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Filed Under: Age, Inspiration, Life, Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.” ~~ Albus Dumbledore, in “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” by J.K. Rowling
“To control and sort young people for the sake of institutional efficiency is to crush the human spirit.” ~~ Ron Miller
“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.” ~~ Samuel Ullman
“Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does — except wrinkles.” ~~ Abigail Van Buren
“It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks” ~~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“Ask the young. They know everything.” ~~ Joseph Joubert
“How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 –and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?” ~~ Arthur C. Clarke
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