標題: [詩詞分享] Youth ---- Samuel Ullman [打印本頁] 作者: felicity2010 時間: 2010-5-3 11:39 PM 標題: Youth ---- Samuel Ullman
本帖最後由 felicity2010 於 2010-5-4 07:57 AM 編輯 3 E6 B, n& x- U( E7 Y6 H5.39.217.77:88984 V4 [; b: s1 p% }; X$ s Youth by Samuel Ullmantvb now,tvbnow,bttvb7 U8 f3 U/ n1 B( N* |4 _1 ]# M) e
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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.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb; ^& c4 Q& V, T( O, V" d7 V! \
6 z4 D3 l! ^, Y$ P$ I9 c" zYouth means a predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often happens in a man of sixty more than a boy of twenty.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb: y; V" d: S B5 x' i
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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. : _( D+ F* w% P& F2 i {& N ) H9 x) U" K% T) k8 b9 V4 L! \2 FWhether sixty or sixteen, there's in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of 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, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young. * _7 b i6 E, w5 b( h5.39.217.77:88988 F' F$ z( ]; l
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope that you may die young at eighty. ' S2 g- F5 V# I6 Q5.39.217.77:88985.39.217.77:88985 b X4 P. A8 S& J/ e2 r1 |+ ]4 X
0 \8 n& C& v; m; \; b% o8 K公仔箱論壇青春不是年華，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，熾熱的感情;青春是生命的源泉在不息的湧流。5 G( ~, c- B& E1 V7 w, D' N
