youth

Youth is not a period of life; It is a state of mind; This is not rosy cheeks, red lips and soft knees; This is a will, an imaginary quality, and an emotional vitality; This is the freshness of the deep spring of life.

Youth means a kind of courage to overcome timidity, a kind of adventurous desire to overcome ease. This is more common in a 60-year-old man than in a 20-year-old boy. No one grows old just because of age. We grow old by giving up our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns youth to ashes.

Whether you are 60 years old or 16 years old, everyone has the temptation of miracles, the insatiable desire for the future and the fun of life games. In your heart and mine, there is a radio station; As long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, courage and strength from men and God, you will always be young.

When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with the ice of cynicism and pessimism, even if you are only 20 years old, you are old; But as long as you put up your antennas and catch waves of optimism, there is hope that you will remain young at the age of 80.