Youth--Samuel-Ullman

Youth is not a time of life,
it is 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 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 is often exist in a man of sixth more than a boy of twenty.

Nobody grows old by a numerous 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 the dust

Whether sixty or sixteen,there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonders,the unfailing child-like appetite of what’ next, and the joy of gaming 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 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 twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

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