"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” ~Bettie Friedan
“Among other qualities, an elder is someone who is committed to staying put, who has lived into the competencies of belonging and made an invitation of their lives to the young ones growing up around them." ~Toko-pa Turner
"Creativity, intellect and talent are the main sources of eternal youth." ~Sophia Loren
"Each cell of our body contains all the habit energies of all generations of ancestors." ~Thich Nhat Hanh
"He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.” ~Plato
"I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule." ~Horace Walpole
"If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old." ~Lord Chesterfield
“If you think of your life as the fruit of a long surviving tree, you are an expression of a dream once seeded by your ancestors.” ~Toko-pa Turner
"If you would taste love, drink of the pure stream that youth pours out at your feet. Do not wait till it has become a muddy river before you stoop to catch its waves." ~Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)
“In every cell of your body, you can recognize the presence of your ancestors.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh on how our bodies are masterpieces of the cosmos.
"It is up to the youth to decisively and finally break our society out of the constricting and divisive definitions of our past." ~Nelson Mandela speaking at the re-burial ceremony for Anton Lembede, Mbumbulu, South Africa, 27 October 2002, LivingTheLegacy
"It is vital that our youth lead the efforts to create the conditions in which our people can sleep peacefully at night and our children can go to school without fear." ~Nelson Mandela upon receiving an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Kwazulu-Natal, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, 30 May 1998, Living The Legacy
"Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation." ~Adlai Stevenson I
"One generation ends, the scepter is passed on to the next; another is living a full life whilst the last enjoys his youth.." ~JV Dancel Occena, October 5, 2019 (demise of the last sibling)
"Only few people have that heart to mold the next generation." ~John Vier
"Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation." ~Nelson Mandela speaking at a National Men's March, Pretoria, South Africa, 22 November 1997, LivingTheLegacy
"Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our country, the creators of our national wealth, those who care for and protect our people." ~Nelson Mandela speaking during the Dedication of the Qunu and Nkalane Schools, Qunu, South Africa, 3 June 1995, LivingTheLegacy
"The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later." ~Charles Caleb Colton
“The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth” ~Desiderius Erasmus
"To the youth of today, I also have a wish to make: be the scriptwriters of your destiny and feature yourselves as stars that showed the way towards a brighter future." ~Nelson Mandela speaking during a birthday celebration for the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, French International School, Johannesburg, South Africa, 9 July 2008
"Today's youth are in touch with technology, but they have lost touch with nature." ~A.D. Williams
"When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable." ~Anon
"When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You hurry to get past these obstacles and get to the ocean. But as the creek moves down through the fields, it becomes larger and calmer and it can enjoy the reflection of the sky. It's wonderful. You will arrive at the sea anyway so enjoy the journey. Enjoy the sunshine, the sunset, the moon, the birds, the trees, and the many beauties along the way. Taste every moment of your daily life." ~Thich Nhat Hanh
"When young people are not encouraged and given a chance to awaken to the story seeded in their souls, something greater than careers and potentials becomes wasted. Something golden and noble becomes lost and more people begin to wander in confusion, seeking in the outside world what has been lost within themselves." ~Toko-pa Turner
"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." ~Franz Kafka
“Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.” ~Thomas Paine
GENERATION
"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." ~Gilbert K Chesterton (1874-1936), English writer
"In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations." ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." ~John Quincy Adams
“Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that generation.” ~Nelson Mandela
"The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever." ~William Blake
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." ~William James
"It is up to the youth to decisively and finally break our society out of the constricting and divisive definitions of our past." ~Nelson Mandela speaking at the re-burial ceremony for Anton Lembede, Mbumbulu, South Africa, 27 October 2002, LivingTheLegacy
"It is vital that our youth lead the efforts to create the conditions in which our people can sleep peacefully at night and our children can go to school without fear." ~Nelson Mandela upon receiving an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Kwazulu-Natal, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, 30 May 1998, Living The Legacy
"Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation." ~Adlai Stevenson I
"One generation ends, the scepter is passed on to the next; another is living a full life whilst the last enjoys his youth.." ~JV Dancel Occena, October 5, 2019 (demise of the last sibling)
"Only few people have that heart to mold the next generation." ~John Vier
"Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation." ~Nelson Mandela speaking at a National Men's March, Pretoria, South Africa, 22 November 1997, LivingTheLegacy
"Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our country, the creators of our national wealth, those who care for and protect our people." ~Nelson Mandela speaking during the Dedication of the Qunu and Nkalane Schools, Qunu, South Africa, 3 June 1995, LivingTheLegacy
"The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later." ~Charles Caleb Colton
“The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth” ~Desiderius Erasmus
"To the youth of today, I also have a wish to make: be the scriptwriters of your destiny and feature yourselves as stars that showed the way towards a brighter future." ~Nelson Mandela speaking during a birthday celebration for the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, French International School, Johannesburg, South Africa, 9 July 2008
"Today's youth are in touch with technology, but they have lost touch with nature." ~A.D. Williams
"When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable." ~Anon
"When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You hurry to get past these obstacles and get to the ocean. But as the creek moves down through the fields, it becomes larger and calmer and it can enjoy the reflection of the sky. It's wonderful. You will arrive at the sea anyway so enjoy the journey. Enjoy the sunshine, the sunset, the moon, the birds, the trees, and the many beauties along the way. Taste every moment of your daily life." ~Thich Nhat Hanh
"When young people are not encouraged and given a chance to awaken to the story seeded in their souls, something greater than careers and potentials becomes wasted. Something golden and noble becomes lost and more people begin to wander in confusion, seeking in the outside world what has been lost within themselves." ~Toko-pa Turner
"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." ~Franz Kafka
“Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.” ~Thomas Paine
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GENERATION
"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." ~Gilbert K Chesterton (1874-1936), English writer
"In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations." ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." ~John Quincy Adams
“Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that generation.” ~Nelson Mandela
"The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever." ~William Blake
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." ~William James
"Too much love won't spoil. Kindness doesn't provoke poor behaviour. Respect doesn't invite disrespect. This is backward thinking which has caused us to feel trapped into being too harsh for too long. Generations of children are still searching and longing for unconditional love." ~Rebecca Eanes
"We're churning out a generation of poorly educated people with no skill, no ambition, no guidance, and no realistic expectations of what it means to go to work." ~Mike Rowe on "Dirty Jobs"
"We Must Be That Generation - that climate of change, by coming together with all the generations that are currently living on this planet, to bring our desire for peace, kindness and respect to the forefront. Together. Now." ~Heather McCloskey Beck"You are powerful in that you shape the future of young people whose future is also that of our nation. This is not only in the aspect of the sizable contribution of merchant marine officers to our economy, but in their being worthy and productive citizens whose example would pass on to the next generations." ~Marichu Bergu, Guest Speaker and Lecturer
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OTHERS
"A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals. Youths are conservatives, with a dash of criminal negligence. Men in their prime are liberals (as long as their digestion keeps pace with their intellect). The middle aged run to shelter: they insure their life, draft a will, accumulate mementos and occasional tables, and hope for security. And then comes old age, which repeats childhood -- a time full of humors and sadness, but often full of courage and even prophecy." ~E. B. White
"Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom.” ~Gabriel García Márquez
"From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture." ~W. Somerset Maugham
“I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job.” ~Frederick Hudson Ecker
"Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later." ~Dana Stewart Scott
"Strange times are these in which we live where old and young are taught falsehood in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool." ~Plato
"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured." ~Kurt Vonnegut
"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to." ~Bill Vaughan
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