Enthusiasms Quotes
On keeping early passions alive.
One quote reflects on regret, describing adults who had real enthusiasms as kids but were never encouraged, leaving them unhappy in unrelated jobs later in life. Another takes a more hopeful view, arguing that all noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish early stage before growing wiser and more serene — a matter of passion maturing rather than fading, close in spirit to Action taken over time.
I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
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It takes courage to stay young, to make your enthusiasms work for you. Don't let anyone drag you down.
I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I...
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I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.
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A third quote frames staying enthusiastic as an act of Courage, insisting it takes real nerve to keep your enthusiasms working for you and not let anyone drag you down. A final, more personal reflection ties enthusiasm to belonging, describing needing more intimacy from Friendship than one particular country's culture allowed.
