青春
——塞繆爾．厄爾曼
人生匆匆，青春不是易逝的一段。青春應是一種永恒的心態。滿臉紅光，嘴唇紅潤，腿腳靈活，這些並不是青春的全部。真正的青春啊，它是一種堅強的意誌，是一種想像力的高品位，是感情的充沛飽滿，是生命之泉的清澈常新。
青春意味著勇敢戰勝怯懦，青春意味著進取戰勝安逸。年月的輪回就一定導致衰老嗎？要知道嗬，老態龍鍾是因為放棄了理想的追求。
無情的歲月的流逝，留下了深深的皺紋，而熱忱的喪失，會在靈魂深處打下烙印。焦慮、恐懼、自卑，終會使心情沮喪，意誌消亡。
60歲也罷，16歲也罷，每個人的心田都應保持著不泯的童心，去探索新鮮的事物，去追求人生的樂趣。我們的心中都應有座無線電台，隻要不斷地接受來自人類和上帝的美感、希望、勇氣與力量，我們就會永葆青春。倘若你收起天線，使自己的心靈蒙上玩世不恭的霜雪和悲觀厭世的冰淩，即使你年方20，你已垂垂老矣；倘若你已經80高齡，臨於辭世，若豎立天線去收聽樂觀進取的電波，你仍會青春煥發。
YOUTH
Samuel Ullman
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter ofrosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, aquality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness ofthe deep springs of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of theappetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. Wegrow 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 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder,the unfailing child-like appetite of what’s next and the joy of the game ofliving. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wirelessstation: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage andpower from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicismand the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long asyour aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may dieyoung at 80.
