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 will, a
quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the
freshness of the deep spring of the life. means a tempera-mental predominance of courage 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 turns the spring back to
dust.Whether
60 or 16, there is in every human beings heart the lure of wonders, the
unfailing childlike appetite of what’s next and the joy of the game of
living. In the center of your heart and my heart there a wireless
station: so
long as it receives messages 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, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as
long as you your aerials are up, to waves of optimism, there is hope
you may die young at 80.
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