來源：編輯部   第五十七期《寶利特》期刊 卷首語

青春不是年華，而是心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想象，炙熱的情感；青春是生命的深泉在涌流。

青春氣貫長虹，勇銳蓋過怯弱，進取壓倒茍安。如此銳氣，二十后生而有之，六旬男子則更多見。年歲有加，并非垂老；理想丟棄，方墮暮年。歲月悠悠，衰微只及肌膚；熱忱拋卻，頹廢必致靈魂。憂煩，惶恐，喪失自信，定使心靈扭曲，意氣如灰。

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

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。

一旦天線倒塌，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。

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 imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20.

Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder,the unfailing child-like appetite of what’s 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 the Infinite, so long are you young.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are 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.

背景介紹：

《青春》——塞繆爾·厄爾曼  （Samuel Ullman)   夏海濤譯

這篇短文寫于20世紀初，它不足500字，但傾倒了世間為數眾多的精英，使他們產生與日俱增的崇敬乃至膜拜的心情。格拉斯·麥克阿瑟將軍生前視《青春》一文為座右銘，不但時常引用，還精心裝裱后擺在自己的辦公室里。

在日本，《青春》一文更是走紅，一位外籍日本通曾斷言：任何一個對日本經濟活動懷有興趣的人，都需要了解和運用這篇短文。就連松下電器的創始人松下幸之助幾十年來也把《青春》當做他的座右銘。因為日本企業界的巨子們幾乎普遍地認為：《青春》的力量無價。欲尋求出類拔萃的、品格卓越的進步，不能不依靠青春的活力，以及由它派生的新鮮認識和實踐精神。

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