“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”
Samuel Ullman
“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.”
Albert Einstein
“A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger one.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.”
Victor Hugo
“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.”
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.”
Walt Disney