- Feed http://quotationsbook.com Quotations Book Search <![CDATA[Youth is not a time of lifeit is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despairthese are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust. Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every beings heart a love of wonder; the sweet amazement at the stars and starlike things and thoughts; the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what comes next, and the joy in the game of life. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair. In the central place of your heart there is a wireless station. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, grandeur, courage, and power from the earth, from men and from the Infiniteso long are you young. When the wires are all down and the central places of your heart are covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then are you grown old, indeed!]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45095/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45095/ <![CDATA[I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39586/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39586/ <![CDATA[Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10092/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10092/ <![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42517/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42517/ <![CDATA[The strong man is strongest when alone.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36837/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36837/ <![CDATA[The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36776/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36776/ <![CDATA[Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36787/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36787/ <![CDATA[It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36797/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36797/ <![CDATA[The good and the wise lead quiet lives.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36802/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36802/ <![CDATA[Friends are proved by adversity.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16008/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16008/