2008年5月31日 上午4點11分36秒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 supply 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 60,more than a boy of 20.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 the turns the spring back to dust.

      Whether 60 or 16,in every human being`s heart there is the lure of wonder,the unfailing childlike appetite of  what is 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 of beauty ,hope,cheer,courage and power from men and from the Infinite,so long are you young.

     When the aerials are down,and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism,when you are grown old,even at 20,but as long as your aerials are up,to catch waves of optimism,there is hope you may die young at 80.

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