Wallace Stegner Quotes

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

Youthfulness is not determined by age. It is determined by one's life force. One who possesses hope is forever young. One who continually advances is forever beautiful.

you shall above all things be glad and young For if you're young,whatever life you wear it will become you;and if you are glad whatever's living will yourself become.

You shall above all things be glad and young.

I've still got a twinkle in me.

I feel young every day.

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

Music keeps you eternally young. It just does.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.

Positive thoughts: joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness, have positive results: enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love.

When you're really young, you're young for life.

...he who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes old prematurely; but he who has faith, retains eternal youth.

To me, young has no meaning. It's something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it.

Youth is a question of energy.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

Adopting a really positive attitude can work wonders to adding years to your life, a spring to your step, a sparkle to your eye, and all of that.

Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

I don't pretend to be happy all the time. I think to be human is to be happy and unhappy by turns. But I have a great capacity to enjoy myself, and it seems to grow as I get older.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging than misery.

To me, the most important thing is happiness.