青春的真諦——年歲有加，並非垂老，理想丟棄，方墮暮年

少時的我們都從青春走過，拼盡全力向前衝，也許是怕落得明明是碌碌無為還安慰自己平凡可貴的境地。

歲月總是催人老，時光的鐘在推著我們先前走。只有在青春歲月中足夠努力追求自己，才能更好的理解青春。

就像王佐良翻譯的青春，細細品來，每一句都是對青春最好的詮釋。

《YOUTH》

Samuel Ullman

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it isnot a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of thewill, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is thefreshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage overtimidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This oftenexists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely bya number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasmwrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns thespirit back to dust.

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being'sheart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, andthe joy of the game of living.

In the center of your heart and my heart there is awireless 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.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is coveredwith snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, evenat twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism,there is hope you may die young at eighty.

《青春》

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，恢宏的想象，炙熱的戀情；青春是生命的深泉在湧流。

青春氣貫長虹，勇銳蓋過怯弱，進取壓倒苟安。如此銳氣，二十後生而有之，六旬男子則更多見。年歲有加，並非垂老，理想丟棄，方墮暮年。

歲月悠悠，衰微只及肌膚；熱忱拋卻，頹廢必致靈魂。憂煩，惶恐，喪失自信，定使心靈扭曲，意氣如灰。

無論年屆花甲，抑或二八芳齡，心中皆有生命之歡愉，奇蹟之感召，孩童般天真久盛不衰。

人的心靈應如浩淼瀚海，只有不斷接納美好、希望、歡樂、勇氣和力量的百川，才能青春永駐、風華長存。

一旦心海枯竭，銳氣便被冰雪覆蓋，玩世不恭、 自暴自棄油然而生，即使年方二十，實已垂垂老矣；然則只要虛懷若谷，讓喜悅、達觀、仁愛充盈其間，你就有望在八十高齡告別塵寰時仍覺年輕。