Young At Heart Quotes

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka

“No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now”
― Bob Dylan

“The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“At the time I now write of, Father Mapple was in the hardy winter of a healthy old age; that sort of old age which seems merging into a second flowering youth, for among all the fissures of his wrinkles, there shone certain mild gleams of a newly developing bloom - the spring verdure peeping forth even beneath February's snow.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“don’t say you’se ole. You’se uh lil girl baby all de time. God made it so you spent yo’ ole age first wid somebody else, and saved up yo’ young girl days to spend wid me.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Cousin Bette

“Learning is the ecstasy of life which keeps our hearts young and our minds sharp.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Some old people keep young at heart in spite of wrinkles and gray hairs, can sympathize with children's little cares and joys, make them feel at home, and can hide wise lessons under pleasant plays, giving and receiving friendship in the sweetest way.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“For her heart, I know that cannot grow old; and while the heart is young, man may laugh Old Time in the face, and dare him to do his worse.”
― George MacDonald, The Portent

“, and there were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden, in spite of my years and children.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden

“The true beauty of Christmas is revealed when we adore the season, not like some weary adult, but like a bubbly little child.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“My youthful heart still holds the buoyancy of promise. Even though it is scarred by the ravages of time, there is still hope and possibilities to explore.”
― Andrew Pacholyk, Barefoot ~ A Surfer's View of the Universe

“There we were last summer, having a picnic in a sylvan setting. Birds were singing, the atmosphere was full of soft colours; there were children in gay cotton frocks, their laughter filled the air. Elders sat in a kind of Elysian abstraction. I remember it so well. I remember a certain old lady who sat with her back against a tree, her profile to me. I sat desultorily conversing but gazing at that face which was gazing at her grandchildren. And there came to me out of that old face the face of the young woman she had been. I saw that she had been beautiful, bright and humorous - and it was all there still as she watched her grandchildren. Old age was merely a veil which a moment of vision could snatch off.”
― Adrian Bell, A Countryman's Spring Notebook

“At our core, most of us are still the same as we were when we were young. It's just a matter of what we've collected around ourselves from our experiences to obstruct what's at the center. - The Malwatch”
― Scaylen Renvac

“Please, please don't ever forget to release your magic, the unity, the music into your homes, into the cars, and into the hearts of every possible moment.”
― Helen Edwards, Nothing Sexier Than Freedom

“A heart that stays young still believes in forever. That’s how it dares to love deeply, even late in the story.”
― Pamela Cox

“I'm used to being invisible these days. But I couldn't get what she'd said out of my head, about ordinary people doing extraordinary things." A sigh. "Made me miss being young, I suppose. That kind of energy, that sense that I could just do anything. But being old doesn't mean I can't enjoy things. Try to get the most out of life.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In