美国作家塞缪尔•厄尔曼《青春》[P]
[/P][P]中译：王佐良[/P][P]
[/P][P] 青春不是年华，而是心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志、恢宏的想像、炽热的感情；青春是生命的深泉涌流。[/P][P]
[/P][P] 青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯弱，进取压倒苟安。如此锐气，二十后生有之，六旬男子则更多见。年岁有加，并非垂老；理想丢弃，方堕暮年。[/P][P]
[/P][P] 岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤；热忱抛却，颓唐必致灵魂。忧烦、惶恐、丧失自信，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。[/P][P]
[/P][P] 无论年届花甲，抑或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人的心灵应如浩淼瀚海，只有不断接纳美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的百川，才能青春永驻、风华长存。[/P][P]
[/P][P] 一旦心海枯竭，锐气便被冰雪覆盖，玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生，即使年方二十，实已垂垂老矣；然则只要虚怀若谷，让喜悦、达观、仁爱充盈其间，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉年轻。[/P][P]
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[/P][P]《YOUTH》 [/P][P]Samuel Ullman [/P][P]
[/P][P]Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of [/P][P]rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a [/P][P]quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of [/P][P]the deep springs of life. [/P][P]
[/P][P]Youth means a tempera-mental predominance of courage over timidity, of the [/P][P]appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of [/P][P]60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We [/P][P]grow old by deserting our ideals. [/P][P]
[/P][P]Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. [/P][P]Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spring back to dust. [/P][P]
[/P][P]Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder, [/P][P]the unfailing childlike appetite of what’s next and the joy of the game of [/P][P]living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless [/P][P]station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and [/P][P]power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young. [/P][P]
[/P][P]When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism [/P][P]and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as [/P][P]your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die [/P][P]young at 80.[/P] | 
