Youth

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind;

it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees;

it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions;

it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity,? of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.

This often exists in a man of sixty more than a boy of twenty.

Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.

We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living.

In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station;

so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, courage and power from man and from the Infinite, so long as you are young.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you've grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty

青春不是年歲洲押，而是一種心態(tài)

它與桃面，丹唇圆凰，柔膝無關(guān)杈帐；

而是意志，創(chuàng)意专钉，激情;

它是永不枯竭的生命之泉挑童。

青春是自強不息，戰(zhàn)勝怯懦跃须，是勇往直前站叼，不圖茍安。

沒人因年歲增長而變老菇民。

只因喪失理想而衰頹尽楔。

流逝的歲月也許會在肌膚留下痕跡，丟失的熱情卻會讓靈魂泛起褶皺第练。

憂慮阔馋、惶恐、自我懷疑娇掏，會使靈魂扭曲呕寝，意氣如灰。

無論年少或年長婴梧，每個人都應(yīng)當充滿好奇下梢，像孩子般去探索新鮮的事物，去追求人生的樂趣塞蹭。

你我的心中都應(yīng)有座無線電臺孽江；

只要不斷地接受來自人間和蒼穹的美感、希望浮还、勇氣和力量竟坛，我們就會永葆青春。

倘若你收起天線钧舌，使自己的心靈蒙上玩世不恭的霜雪和悲觀厭世的冰凌担汤，即使你年方二十，你也垂垂老矣洼冻；倘若你已經(jīng)八十高齡崭歧，臨于辭世，若豎起天線去收聽樂觀進取的電波撞牢，你仍會青春煥發(fā)率碾。

《青春》這篇美文在世界各國廣為流傳，不少世界名人都將其視為座右銘屋彪，如麥克阿瑟將軍所宰、松下電器創(chuàng)始人松下幸之助等。