Youthful Spirit Quotes

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

With the "old dog" stuff, maybe the term "old" is in there, but I'm 26. I'm not that old. It's mostly like, "Ah, you dirty old dog!" I'm saying it more like that. I'm still ripping. I'm ready to rip. I'll make a bunch more records and have a nice time. We'll see what happens.

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

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

Youth is the only thing worth having.

I'm young at heart. I'm young in spirit, and I'm still adventurous.

If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

I'm sick of all these young people just boogeying around, wasting their lives, you know.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

I still feel I am that 14-year-old kid, hungry and trying to find a way through life. That's what I'm trying to develop, trying to be good at something through boxing. But I feel like that young kid who's trying and trying.

I don't think anyone feels older. You have this infinity inside you that feels like it could go on forever.

If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.

Inside, I feel 30ish - I'm childish and optimistic.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

To be young, really young, takes a very long time.

Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it.

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

Over at our place, we’re sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don’t think of grown-ups, and we don’t think of children. But just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us, that maybe the world has made us forget.