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 matter of the will . a quality of the imagination . a vigor of the emotions ;it is the freshness of the deep springs of liffe .
Youth means a tempera -mental predominance of courage over timidity , of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease .This often exists in a man of 6o 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 enthusiam wrinkles the soul . worry , fear , self -distrust bows the heart and turns the spring back to dust .
Whether 60 or 16 , there is in very human beiing's heart the lure of wonder , the unfailing childlike appetite of 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 , cheer , courage and power from men and from the infinite , so long as are you young.
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 20 , but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism , there is hope you may die young at 80.
