Young Friends Quotes

• We have bottled all the stars this evening, my young friend.

  John Green

  Stars, Evening, Young

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.749, Penguin

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• My young friends, ... not all the whirlwinds in life are of your own making. Some come because of the wrong choices of others, and some come just because this is mortality. You are His son or His daughter. He made your spirit strong and capable of being resilient to the whirlwinds of life. The whirlwinds in your youth, like the wind against a young tree, can increase your spiritual strength, preparing you for the years ahead.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Daughter, Spiritual, Strong

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, Friendship, Pain

  "Kindness Can Open Hearts and Unexpected Opportunities" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2015.

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• When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

  Edvard Grieg

  Real, Mean, Matter

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• Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Friendship, Pain, True Friend

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• Dear young friends, learn to pray every day: this is the way to know Jesus and invite him into your lives.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Way, Praying

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances. I want my young friends to live like that, and I think they, too, have such a wish.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Growing Up, Character, Thinking

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• I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

  Maria Callas

  Girl, Play, Wish

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• May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend; and then, even when the time comes, as it has come for me now, when the woods are black, when night is fast falling, you will be able to console yourself, as I do, by looking up at the sky.

  Marcel Proust

  Fall, Night, Blue

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.130, Vintage

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• Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

  George Santayana

  Writing, Adventure, Drunk

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• Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Advice, Young

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• My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse.

  Mason Cooley

  Friends, Youth, Young

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• Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Football

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.79, Vivekananda Kendra

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• You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential, my young friend.

  Michael Piller

  Path, Come Up, Greater

  "Fictional character: Dr. Stubbs". "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (TV Series, Season 3, Episode 1: Evolution), 1987-1994.

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  Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Men, Rocks, Storm

  "Fictional character: Edmond Dantès". "The Count of Monte Cristo", 2002.

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• My beloved young friends, determine to serve one another. Opportunities for Christian acts of service do not always come at convenient times. Listen to the spirit when your flesh is weak. For truly the Master said, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me" (Matt. 25:40). The blessings are tenfold when we do those good, kindly acts of Christian service when it is inopportune or not convenient.

  Vaughn J Featherstone

  Friendship, Christian, Blessing

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• I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to "play polo" with him; i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by side with him and gradually edge him off your track. Never lose your temper with him. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can't afford to.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Friendship, Play, Track

  Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.271, Pan Macmillan

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• My single young friends, we counsel you to channel your associations with the opposite sex into dating patterns that have the potential to mature into marriage, not hanging-out patterns that only have the prospect to mature into team sports like touch football. Marriage is not a group activity—at least not until the children come along in goodly numbers

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Sports, Football, Sex

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• Sadly enough, my young friends, it is a characteristic of our age that if people want any gods at all, they want them to be gods who do not demand much, comfortable gods, smooth gods who not only don't rock the boat but don't even row it, gods who pat us on the head, make us giggle, then tell us to run along and pick marigolds.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Running, Rocks, People

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• People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.

  Brandon Sanderson

  People, Stories, Young

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.807, Macmillan

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• If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.

  Dorothy Parker

  Friendship, Happy, Writing

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• I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane Austen gave a young friend the same advice, so I'm in good company there.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Writing, Advice

  "Of magic and single motherhood". Interview with Margaret Weir, www.salon.com. March 14, 1999.

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• To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.

  Nancy Reagan

  Inspirational, Life, God

  "'Just Say No'". Address to the Nation, edition.cnn.com. September 14, 1986.

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• An older guy, he's going to show you things that a young man can't show you. He's going to show you how to stay alive. He's going to show you how to turn corners where your young friends will show you how to turn right into that wall, you know what I'm saying?

  Snoop Dogg

  Wall, Men, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Truly, my dear young friends, you are a chosen generation. I hope you will never forget it. I hope you will never take it for granted. I hope there will grow in your hearts an overpowering sense of gratitude to God, who has made it possible for you to come upon the earth in this marvelous season of the world's history.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Gratitude, Heart, Historical

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