Original: Il segreto per vivere una vita senza rimpianti è amare ogni sua fase: la scoperta e l'energia della giovinezza, la progettualità e la solidità dell'età adulta, la consapevolezza, la libertà e il valore della maturità.
Source: prevale.net
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: La bellezza dell'esistenza non si limita mai alla giovinezza, ma si evolve con il tempo, riflettendo esperienze, maturità e crescita. Saper cogliere il lato positivo di ogni fase significa non temere il cambiamento, ma viverlo.
Source: prevale.net
“Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.”
Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) American playwright and novelist
TIME magazine (3 February 1958)
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist
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?
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
"Self-Portrait" (1936), p. 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=Q1UxYzuI2oQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false <br class="br">1950s, Out of My Later Years (1950) <br class="br">Variant: I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer
"The Pirates of Florida and Other Impossibilities", speech at the Conference on the Fantastic (1991), as published in Castle of Days (1992)
Nonfiction
J. G. Ballard (1930–2009) British writer
As quoted in Elevator Music (1994) by Joseph Lanza
Context: I began to become an adult when I was 24 and got married and had children. That matures you, but I wouldn't say I was fully an adult until I was in my forties. The trouble with the whole adult debate is that if you're asking 18-year-olds to go out and fight wars for you then you can't deny them adult rights even though in sorts of other ways they wouldn't qualify until they were about 25. These days adolescence stretches much further into adulthood than it used to. There's no longer any encouragement to be mature.
