後來此文傳到日本，文章的觀點成為許多日本人生活哲學的基礎。
鬆下公司的創始人鬆下幸之助說：“多年來，《年輕》始終是我的座右銘。”
文章如下：
年輕，並非人生旅程的一段時光，也並非粉頰紅唇和體魄的矯健。它是心靈中的一種狀態，是頭腦中的一個意念，是理性思維中的創造潛力，是情感活動的一股勃勃的朝氣，是人生春色深處的一縷東風。
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, vigor of the emotions.
It is the freshness of the deep spring of life.
年輕，意味著甘願放棄溫馨浪漫的愛情去闖蕩生活，意味著超越羞澀、怯懦和欲望的膽識與氣質。而60歲的男人可能比20歲的小夥子更多地擁有這種膽識與氣質。沒有人僅僅因為時光的流逝而變得衰老，隻是隨著理想的毀滅，人類才出現了老人。
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity,of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.
This often exits in a man of 60, more than a boy of 20.
Nobody grows merely by the number of years; we grow old by deserting our ideas.
歲月悠悠，衰微隻及肌膚；熱忱拋卻，頹唐必至靈魂。憂煩、惶恐、喪失自信，定使心靈扭曲，意氣如灰。
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Worry, fear, self-distrust1 bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
無論是60歲還是16歲，每個人都會被未來所吸引，都會對人生競爭中的歡樂懷著孩子般無窮無盡的渴望。
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonders,the unfailing childlike appetite of what's next and the joy of the game of living.
在你我心靈的深處，同樣有一個無線電台，隻要它不停地從人群中，從無限的時間中接受美好、希望、歡欣、勇氣和力量的信息，你我就永遠年輕。
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 infinite,so long as you are young.
一旦這無線電台坍塌，你的心便會被玩世不恭和悲觀失望的寒冷酷雪所覆蓋，你便衰老了——即使你隻有20歲。但如果這無線電台始終矗立在你心中，捕捉著每個樂觀向上的電波，你便有希望超過年輕的80歲。
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with the snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism,then you've grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up,to catch waves of optimism, there's hope you may die young at 80. 
所以隻要勇於有夢，敢於追夢，勤於圓夢，我們就永遠年輕！千萬不要動不動就說自己老了，錯誤引導自己！年輕就是力量，有夢就有未來！
文轉自：塞繆爾·厄爾曼 Samuel Ullman
配圖：油畫作者劉錦予
