Youth青春等美文.pdf

YOUTH Samuel Ullman 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 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 spirit back to dust. Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human beings heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of whats next and the j oy 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 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 your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80. 2 青 春 塞缪尔  乌尔曼 著 刘元高 译 青春不是时间，而是心境；青春不是粉面、丹唇、柔膝，而是卓绝的意志、恢宏的想象、激 越的感情；青春是生命深底清泉的涌流。 青春意味着精神上的勇气战胜怯懦，冒险进取战胜舒适苟安，这在六十花甲的老人中并 不比二十弱冠的青年鲜见。岁月流逝，我们不会颓然老去；理想丧失，我们才老态毕现。 光阴荏苒，我们两鬓染霜；热情抛却，我们冥然心死。焦虑、恐惧、自暴自弃，我们意气 志消沉、心如死灰。 无论你年届花甲，抑或二八佳龄，新奇世界对我们都有吸引；童心不泯，对于未来充满 好奇，我们就能够享受人生。你我心中都有一座无线电台，只要从宇宙和无限之中汲取美好、 希望、欢乐、勇敢和力量的信号，你就会青春依旧。 一旦天