返回信息流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 will ,a qulity of imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep spring of life.
青春不是一段生命流程,而是一种精神状态;不是红润的脸庞、嫣红的双唇和柔韧的膝盖,而是不拔的意志、超凡的想象和澎湃的激情。青春,是从生命之泉深处洋溢出来的鲜活与清凉。
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 20. No body grows old merely by a number of years, We grow old by deserting our ideals.
青春意味着战胜怯懦的豪迈气概和摒弃安逸、崇尚冒险的大无畏精神。(所以)一个60岁的老者往往也可能比一个20岁的小伙儿更富有青春。人们渐长渐老不仅因为岁月的流失,更多的是因为我们对自己理想的背弃。
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.
岁月可以在皮肤上留下痕迹,而激情之火的熄灭则在心灵上刻下烙印。担忧、恐惧、缺乏自信等扭曲了人的心灵,也将青春化为灰烬。
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart, the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what’s next and the job 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 you are young.
无论是60岁还是16岁,每个人都要保有强烈的好奇心、永不褪色的孩童般的求知欲和用人生赌明天的冒险精神。在你我的心底,都有一座无线电台:只要它能接收人类和万物传递来的美好、希望、欢乐、鼓舞和力量的信息,你就会青春永驻。
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grow 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.
当这根天线倒毁时,你的灵魂就会被玩世不恭和悲观厌世的冰雪覆盖——这时即使你只有20岁,也会未老先衰;而只要你的天线巍然矗立,鼓起自信乐观的风帆,你就可以在80岁去世时依旧青春不逝。
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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、恢宏的想像、炽热的感情;青春是生命的深泉涌流。
青春气贯长虹,勇锐盖过怯懦,进取压倒苟安。如此锐气,二十年后生有之,六旬男子则更多见。年岁有加,并非垂老;理想丢弃,方堕暮年。
岁月悠悠,衰微只及肌肤;热忱抛却,颓唐必至灵魂。忧烦、惶恐、丧失自信,定使心灵扭曲,意气如灰。
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。
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,即便年方二十,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。
——赛缪尔·厄尔曼