“It is not length of life, but depth of life. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Filed Under: Age, Inspiration, Life, Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To control and sort young people for the sake of institutional efficiency is to crush the human spirit.” ~~ Ron Miller
“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
“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
“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
“Ask the young. They know everything.” ~~ Joseph Joubert
