Aging Quote by Alfred de Vigny Download Open image “What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?” — Alfred de Vigny ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aging Great life Intention Life Life Youthful Maturity Youthful Youthful Intention
What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
Every stage of life longs for others. When one is young and eager, one aspires to maturity, and everyone older would like nothing better… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity. — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life should begin with age and it's privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and it's capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings, but avoids… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
“Treasure the beauty of youthful life and the wisdom of adulthood.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature,… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but,… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
“We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, ascribing to them an unshakeable faith… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I lived my… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
“You could see the signs of female aging as diseased, especially if you had a vested interest in making women too see them your… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
