[推荐]《青春》

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青春

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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，恢宏的想象，炽热的感情，青春是生命的深泉在涌流。

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，年龄有加，并非垂老；理想丢弃，方堕暮年。 

岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤，热忱抛弃，颓唐必致灵魂，忧烦惶恐，丧失自信，定会使心灵丑曲，意志如灰。 

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，孩童般天真久感不衰。人人心中皆有一台天线，只要你从天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信号，

你就青春永驻，风华常存。 

一但天线降下，锐气便被冰雪覆盖，玩世不恭，自暴自弃油然而生，即便年芳二十，实已垂垂老矣，然则只要竖起天线捕捉乐观信号，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘宇时仍觉年青。

	

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 spring of life.

　	 Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exits in a man of 60, more than a boy of 2O. Nobody grows merely by the number of years, we grow old by deserting our ideas.

　 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 childlike 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 infinite, so long as you are young.

　 When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with the 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.

	

本文作者是一个成功的商人，在其年届古稀之际，写下如此美文，文章一发表，立即享誉整个世界，英国首相丘吉尔、美国元帅麦克阿瑟、经营之神松下幸之助等名人志士，无不把其进行精美裱装，放在桌前，作为自己的座右铭，永远激励自己。

希望这篇美文能够激励家人们一往无前，永远有一份青春的激情。