When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
I see what keeps people young: work!
That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.
So many young people are coming out of a generation that has experienced deep woundedness and brokenness, and they are full of life. They are eager to engage. They care about community, and they care about one another.
Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.
Something has to change in the world. Without change, young people will have no future.
I felt that if I could make the world better for the young, that would be the greatest thing we can do.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
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