年輕是一種心態

年輕是一種心態

Youth is not a time of life; it is a stateof mind;

青春不是年華,而是心境;

it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lipsand supple knees;

青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝,

it is a matter of the will, a quality ofthe imagination, a vigor of the emotions;

而是深沉的意志,恢宏的想象,炙熱的感情

it is the freshness of the deep springs oflife.

青春是生命的深泉在湧流。

Youth means a temperamental predominance ofcourage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.

青春氣貫長虹,勇銳蓋過怯弱,進取壓倒苟安。

This often exists in a man of sixty morethan a boy of twenty.

如此銳氣,二十後生而有之,六旬男子則更多見。

Nobody grows old merely by a number ofyears. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

年歲有加,並非垂老,理想丟棄,方墮暮年。

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give upenthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

歲月悠悠,衰微只及肌膚;熱忱拋卻,頹廢必致靈魂。

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heartand turns the spirit back to dust.

憂煩,惶恐,喪失自信,定使心靈扭曲,意氣如灰。

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in everyhuman being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite ofwhat's next, and the joy of the game of living.

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

In the center of your heart and my heartthere 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 are you young.

人人心中皆有一臺天線,只要你從天上人間接受美好、希望、歡樂、勇氣和力量的信號,你就青春永駐,風華常存。

When the aerials are down, and your spiritis covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grownold, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves ofoptimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

一旦天線下降,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;然則只要樹起天線,捕捉樂觀信號,你就有望在八十高齡告別塵寰時仍覺年輕。

年輕是一種心態

青春是心境,而不是年齡。青春氣貫長虹,勇銳蓋過怯懦,進取壓倒苟安,如此銳氣,芸芸眾生當有之。歲月悠悠,衰老只及皮膚;熱忱拋卻,頹廢必至靈魂,你若有一個不羈的靈魂,腳下,便會有一塊堅實的土地。黃忠六十跟劉備,德川家康七十打天下,姜子牙八十為丞相,佘太君百歲掛帥,孫悟空五百歲西天取經,白素貞一千多歲下山談戀愛……凡此種種,不正是青春之章中最輝煌的篇章嗎?

青春不是朱唇紅顏,不是靈活的關節,也不是十八歲,而是豐富的想象,飽滿的激情,也是盪漾在生命甘泉中的一絲清涼,無論你二八芳齡,亦或是年屆花甲,只要你有戰勝怯弱的勇氣,有敢於冒險的精神,不好逸惡勞,你便擁有了青春。許多六十歲的人反而比二十歲的人更具青春風采魅力,年歲雖增,但並不衰老,衰老的成因,是放棄了對理想的追求。活著,就不應該有一個十八的年齡,附帶著六十歲的心。


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