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, 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
deserthing
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 being‘s heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing c
hildlike appetite of what‘s next and the jou of the game of living. In the ceter of your heart and my
heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives
messages of
beauty,
hope,
c
heer, courage and power from men adn 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.