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.
In the center of your heart and my heart,
There is a wireless station;
So long as it receives messages of beauty,hope,courage and power from man and from the infinite,
So long as you are young.
(荐文 刘灿瑶)
(参考译文见本期中缝)