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“In youth, the powers of the mind are directed wholly to the future, and that future assumes such various, vivid, and alluring forms under the influence of hope; hope based, not upon the experience of the past, but upon an assumed possibility of happiness to come, that dreams of expected felicity constitute in themselves the true happiness of that period of our life. Only God Himself knows whether those blessed dreams of youth were ridiculous, or whose the fault was that they never became realized.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

“So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement”
― W. Clement Stone

“A dead man has no age”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot