1. Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind.
2. 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 vigour of the emotions and the freshness of the deep springs of life.
3. Youth means a tempramental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease.
4. Nobody grows old merely by the number of years, and youth often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20.
5. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
6. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
7. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
8. Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unailing child-like appetite of what's next and the joy of the game of living.
9. In the centre of everyone's heart, there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from people and from the infinite, so long are they young.
10. When your spirit is covered with the snow of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you grow old, even at 20.
11. But as long as your aerials and antennas are up to catch waves of optimism, there is hope that you are young at 60.
2. 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 vigour of the emotions and the freshness of the deep springs of life.
3. Youth means a tempramental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease.
4. Nobody grows old merely by the number of years, and youth often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20.
5. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
6. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
7. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
8. Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unailing child-like appetite of what's next and the joy of the game of living.
9. In the centre of everyone's heart, there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from people and from the infinite, so long are they young.
10. When your spirit is covered with the snow of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you grow old, even at 20.
11. But as long as your aerials and antennas are up to catch waves of optimism, there is hope that you are young at 60.