“Waiting to die in old age will not benefit anyone if you have wasted your youth and do not want to change anything right now.”
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Mwanandeke Kindembo 1044
Congolese author 1996Related quotes
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“Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.”
Light (1919), Ch. XXII - Light
Context: I do not regret my youth and its beliefs. Up to now, I have wasted my time to live. Youth is the true force, but it is too rarely lucid. Sometimes it has a triumphant liking for what is now, and the pugnacious broadside of paradox may please it. But there is a degree in innovation which they who have not lived very much cannot attain. And yet who knows if the stern greatness of present events will not have educated and aged the generation which to-day forms humanity's effective frontier? Whatever our hope may be, if we did not place it in youth, where should we place it?
Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)