Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live.
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.
The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.
I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
When I was being honest with myself, I had to own that there was something about me that was drawing an energy in my life that left me feeling underserved and unfulfilled. I decided to grow. I decided to purge myself of anyone and anything that was not full of goodness, serving me or making me happy.
I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager.