10 PRECIOUS IMAGES & IDEAS ABOUT THE BEAUTY OF YOUTH

“Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own.”

-- John Muir

“Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.”

--  F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Tales of the Jazz Age.”

“The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.”

-- E. Lockhart, “We Were Liars.”

“Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.”

--  Rob Sheffield, “Love Is a Mix Tape.”

“Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?”

-- Patti Smith, “Just Kids”

“Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.”

-- Karl Lagerfeld

“To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.”

-- P. T. Barnum

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

-- Franz Kafka

“Youth is incredible because you really do feel invincible.”

-- Paul Stanley

“My grandfather raised me believing in the power of youth to change the world.”

-- Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

“Play is the work of childhood.”

-- Jean Piaget

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IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Image: by Richard Ricciardi. “Childhood.”
2. Image: by Isabelle Acatauassú Alves Almeida. “Bubble reflection.”
3. Image: by Danny O. “Waterlilies.”
4. Image: by Anita Gould. “Children at play.”
5. Image: by Diego Linares. “Playing.”
6. Image: by Larry Barns, United Nations Photo. “Boy Plays with Bicycle Wheel in Iran.”
7. Image: by Ali Eminov. “Embera Indian children at play, Panama.”
8. Image: by Xingjian Zhang. “Children's corner in campus, after a big shower.”
9. Image: by hugrakka. “Hrókurinn.”
10. Image: by Chris Goldberg. “Boy Running with his Dog - Playa Barrigona - Costa Rica.”
11. Image: by sandeepachetan.com travel photography. “Ground surfing game, Kashmir, India.”
12. Image: by svenwerk. “Pigeon Hunt.”
13. Image: by Steve Slater. “Children climbing over the rocks.”
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15. Image: by Patricia Barden. “Playing a polka in the polka dot room at the Yayoi Kusama exhibit.”