Youthful Joy Quotes

#1. As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#2. I love working with my dad, but I need to be independent and do my own stuff.

Rob Reiner

#3. They were twenty-seven already, in no time at all they'd be thirty, terrifying. No one knew what would happen then. Michelle couldn't imagine anything more than writing zine-ish memoirs and working in bookstores.

Michelle Tea

#4. Wolves, and stars, and snow: Those things made sense.

Katherine Rundell

#5. When you reach your peak its time to die.

GG Allin

#6. Sleep is huge. That's your biggest way of recovering. In baseball, it's such a hard sleep schedule during the season, but you try to do the best you can. Because you can take all the protein drinks, you can do all these things, but your recovery is your sleep.

Bryce Harper

#7. Mirrors only show us what we are. Books show us what we can be.

Jennifer Donnelly

#8. You and I should do whatever we can to keep our youthful joy alive. If your life is too predictable, don't go postal. Take a ridiculous ride back to whatever it was that gave you joy as a child. Jump on a trampoline. Saddle up a pony. Give adulthood a rest.

Nick Vujicic

#9. I have been stained by you and corrupted. You smelt so unpleasant too, lining up outside doors to buy tickets.

Virginia Woolf

#10. I don't want to be rich. I'm not interested in money. Well, not money for the sake of it. I just want more life than Mother and Father want. Don't you ever want more? - Frank

Chris Priestley

#11. How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?

William Blake

#12. Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#13. He started writing poetry again, but it didn't come as easily. It was hard now to get past the self-consciousness - the silliness, really - of being such a well-established adult applying himself, seriously, to such a youthful joy.

B.J. Novak

#14. I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it.

Dan Savage

#15. Dancing is my daily exercise.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. No matter how rich you become, how famous or how powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Prichard

#17. The mountains are so beautiful they make me ache inside because the moment I look away I know I shall need to see them again. And I cannot spend the rest of my life standing on the spot starting at shifting sunlight and mist and shadows across the sea.

Anne Perry

#18. On a good night, I'm just into the flow and seeing the pictures and words in my mind clearly before I say them. On a bad night, which to be honest are nowhere near as bad as when I was starting out, I just concentrate on performing the routines correctly. I focus on my delivery.

Franklyn Ajaye