Your age is measured by your dreams not by the years.

— Amit Ray

You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it, and you remember how they changed as they grew older and the joy of questioning everything slowly became transformed into the pain of questioning everything, like a star consuming its own core.

— Kevin Brockmeier

Your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions.

— Bible

Your "scared" and my "scared" are two different things.'' What's that supposed to mean?' she asked.' As you get older, you don't recover from things so easy.'' As you get older, you also get tired?'' Yeah,' I said, 'you get tired.

— Haruki Murakami

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping.

— Cindy Crawford

Youth. I don't seek it through another because I have it within; it's a state of mind, a spirit that is free, and a mind that is playful. The shell of my being is altered by the effects of time, but nothing will tarnish a soul that will never forget what It's like to experience creation with endless wonder and appreciation. Each time I see the first snowfall of the season I feel it's the first time I've seen it at all.

— Donna Lynn Hope

Youth is an unrecoverable asset. Unless you are a hydra, lucky you.

— Anca Ioviţă

Youth is as easily wasted as a fine wine consumed by a drunken man. There is no poetry in aging, and Avert lived out the process in its most hideous iteration.

— Kelsey Brickl

Youth is marked by a breathtaking novelty that diminishes with each year of age - until life becomes a delusive struggle to break routines, escape the ordinary, and rediscover the joy of discovery.

— Zack Love

You’ve climbed too many mountains and crossed too many rivers to stop and turn back now.

— Eleanor Brownn