"Don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying yes begins things. Saying yes is how things grow. Saying yes leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes."
- Stephen Colbert (via emotional-algebra)
“The other terror that scares us from our self trust is our consistency; a reverance for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit, than our past acts, and we are loth to disappoint them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
