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 the will, a quality of the im --agination, vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep spring of life.

Youth means a tempera-mental predominance of cour-age over timidity, of the ap-petite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exits in a man of 60, more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows mereiy by the number of years; we grow old by deserting our ideas. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.Worry, fear, self-dis-trustl bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being is heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what is next and the joy 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 infinite , so long as you are young.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with the snows of cynicism and the ice of pessi-mism, then you have grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.

Translation:

Youth is not years, but state of mind; youth is not Peach face, red lips, soft knees, but deep will, magnificent imagination, fiery emotions; youth is the deep spring of life flowing.

Youth is full of rainbows, bravery overwhelms timidity, and enterprising overwhelms. Gou'an, such vigor is found in those born in their twenties, and is more common in men in their sixties. It increases every year, but it is not old age. If you abandon your ideals, you will fall into twilight years. Time is long, and the decline only affects the skin; if you abandon your enthusiasm, decadence will surely reach your soul. Annoyance, fear, loss of confidence

, will definitely distort the soul and turn the spirit into ashes.

No matter whether you are sixty or twenty-eight years old, there is in your heart the joy of life, the temptation of miracles, and the innocence of a child that will never fade. In everyone's heart We all have an antenna. As long as you receive signals of beauty, hope, joy, courage and strength from heaven and earth, you will remain young and graceful forever.

Once the antenna collapses, your spirit will be covered with ice and snow, and you will become cynicism. , self-destruction arises spontaneously, even if you are only twenty, you are already old; but as long as you put up your antenna and catch the optimistic signal, you can hope to still feel young when you bid farewell to this world at the age of eighty.

This is prose, but it’s good