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, vigor of the emotions;

It is the freshness of the deep spring of life.

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.

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 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 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.

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. 

[melly]

编这段的人不是疯子就是天才，我这种AVERAGE/ORDINARY没法领会深奥的意思。

倒是很搞笑哈。

[归来]

To young and old:

过去的将来，人们充满希望。现在的过去，有赞扬赞许和担心忧虑。现在的将来，有坚定和迷茫。那么将来的过去会是怎样呢？（看明白这段时态的有赏）

:))