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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 is often exists in a man of sixty more than a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old merely 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 of sixteen, there is in every being’s heart the lure of wonder, 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, cheer, courage and power from men 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 are 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.
Excerpt from Youth by Samuel Ullman
许多世界名人曾将这篇短文随身携带,为什么?因为它教给我们如何美好地生活。20世纪初塞缪尔 厄尔曼写的这篇不中500字的短文《青春》一直为世人倾倒,过了这么多年它的魅力依旧。 |  |  |  |  |
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