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  • Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to pretend it's youth, you are going to miss it. You are going to miss the surprises, the possibilities, and the evolution that we are just beginning to know about because there are no role models, no guideposts, and no signs.

  • The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

    BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”
  • Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  • Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

  • The thoughts of Youth are long, long thoughts

    Lost Youth   Long   Youth  
    'My Lost Youth' (1858)
  • What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? "No, thank you," he will think. "Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these things are things that cannot inspire envy."

    Past   Reality   Thinking  
    Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.94, Beacon Press
  • Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

    New York Times, 1974.
  • Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

    "How to live longer, better, wiser". Betty Friedan, Parade Magazine (pp. 4-6), March 20, 1994.
  • If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

    Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.280, Bantam
  • It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

    Time   Lost Youth   Age  
    W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.164, Diversion Books
  • It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

    "The Feminine Mystique".
  • When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

    BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”
  • All Quiet on the Western Front.

    War   Lost Youth   Quiet  
    All Quiet on the Western Front ch. 12 (1929) (translation by A. W. Wheen) See Beers 1
  • Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

  • She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.140, Simon and Schuster
  • The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.

    The Feminine Mystique ch. 14 (1963)
  • I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.

    Love   Lost Youth   Ideas  
    Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.237
  • They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.

    Elizabeth Hardwick (2011). “Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature”, p.97, New York Review of Books
  • His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.

    Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.891, 谷月社
  • There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

    Life   Birthday   Death  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

  • There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for his lost youth-yet the waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his soul, responsibility and a love of life, the faint stirring of old ambitions and unrealized dreams...... And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use to the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.

    Dream   Pain   Memories  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.222, Xist Publishing
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