(新东方生而为赢美文30篇之一) YOUTH Youth is not a time of time; 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 emotions; it is the freshness of deep springs of Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of This often exists in a man of sixty more than a boy of Nobody grows old merely by a number of We grow old by deserting our Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up the enthusiasm wrinkles the Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetile for what is next, and the joy of the game of 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 man and from the Infinite, so long are you When the aerial are down, and your spirit is covered with the snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at But as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at