"Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals."

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Source : "Youth". Essay by Samuel Ullman, www.beliefnet.com. 1920.

Samuel Ullman

#Adventure Quotes #Mean Quotes #Men Quotes

“Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service”
“I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.”
“Despite everything, I have few regrets. I have crammed a lot of living into my time.”
“I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.”
“Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.”
“Laughter heals all wounds, and that's one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you're going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.”
“I got my tattoo a year before the Olympic trials, so I kind of used it as motivation to make the Olympic team the following year. I look at it every time I dive and it's kind of a little fun thing.”
“My kids think I'm old and over the hill.”

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