How To Stay Young
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. It is the temper of the will;
a quality of the imagination;
a vigor of the emotions;
a predominance of courage over
timidity; of appetite for
adventure over love of ease.
Nobody grows old by merely living a
number of years. People grow old
by deserting their ideals.
Years wrinkle the skin, but to
give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and
despair - these are the long years that
bow the head and turn the growing
spirit back to dust.
Whether seventy or sixteen, there is
in every being's heart the love of
wonder, the sweet amazement of the
stars and star-like things and thoughts, the
undaunted challenge of events;
the unfailing child-like appetite
for what-next and the joy and
the game of life.
So long as your heart receives
messages of beauty, cheer, courage,
grandeur and power from the
Infinite, so long you are young.
When the wires are all down and
the central place of your heart
is all covered with the snows of
pessimism and the ice of cynicism,
then you are grown old indeed.
You are as young as your faith,
as old as your doubt;
As young as your self-confidence;
as old as your fear;
As young as your hope;
as old
as your despair.
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