A Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
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The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
Societies as well as people become afraid of change as they grow older. It's human nature. The young have adventures while the old sit at home and nurture their memories.
Contradictions, most of all, a balance between chaos and order. It needs neighborhoods vibrating with energy just as much as cozy little corners and parks; well-tended, middle-class sections as well as an alternative scene; technology centers for innovative youth and social facilities for older people.
Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.
It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.
I would say the youth systems in Germany have impressed me the most and how they grow their youth players into full professionals.
Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.
After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
Boost Mobile RockCorps is providing the chance and motivation to get our youth interested in volunteering. I usually hear about older people volunteering, but this movement is something new that is encouraging the youth to become involved. It's really a chance for them to come together through caring more about their community, which is so important for these kids to learn early on. I think it's crucial to instill a sense of pride in the community and this is a great way for our youth to do that.
We'll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older.
Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life stages and parenting passages, each emphasizing the connections to the generations ahead and behind. As I grow older, for example, I might first see my role as a parent in need of older, mentoring parents, and then become a mentoring parent myself. When I become a grandparent, I might expect to seek out older mentoring grandparents, and then later become a mentoring grandparent.
Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.
If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.
Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.
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