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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 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 being’s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for what’s next and the joy 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, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young.
When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there’s hope you may die young at 80.
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芳华
芳华不是岁月，而是心境；芳华不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想象，炙热的恋情；芳华是生命的深泉在涌流。
芳华气贯长虹，勇锐盖过胆小，进取压倒苟安。云云锐气，二十后生而有之，六旬男人则更多见。年事有加，并非老迈，抱负扬弃，方堕老年。
光阴悠悠，衰微只及肌肤；激情亲切抛却，消极必致魂灵。忧烦，惧怕，损失自信，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。
无论年届花甲，拟或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢悦，事迹之勾引，孩童般灵活久盛不衰。
大家心中皆有一台天线，【情感】，只要你从天上人世接管柔美、但愿、欢悦、勇气和力气的信号，你就芳华永驻，风华常存。
一旦天线降落，锐气便被冰雪包围，玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生，纵然年方二十，实已垂老迈矣；但是只要树起天线，【vip解析】，捕获乐观信号，你就有望在八十高龄辞别世间时仍觉年青。
