这篇散文源自美国的《读者文摘》，作者Samuel Ullman。它讲述了年轻的道理：年轻与年龄无关。心理年轻则永远年轻。龙年伊始，把这篇文章送给我们的我们60后，70后，愿大家永远年轻。
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.
年轻不是人生旅途中的一段时光。年轻是一种精神状态。年轻不是桃面、丹唇及矫健的体魄，而是一种意志、创造力及感情的蓬勃朝气。年轻是生命深泉的缕缕清新。
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.
年轻意味着胆识和气质——以勇敢压倒怯懦，冒险压倒安逸。如此胆识和气质，二十后生有之，六旬男子则更多见。没有人仅仅因为岁月的流逝而变老，只因放弃理想而变老。
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.
岁月可以在肌肤留下皱纹，但如果逝去热情就会在灵魂中留下痕迹。焦虑、恐惧及缺乏自信定使心灵扭曲，如行尸走肉。
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike 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.
无论是60还是16岁，都会被好奇所吸引，拥有孩童般永不衰竭的探索欲望。在你我的心灵深处，都有一座无线电台，只要它能在多长时间里收人间万物传递来的美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信息，你我就会永远年轻。
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.
一旦无线电倒下，你就会被玩世不恭、悲观绝望的冰雪所覆盖。即使你是20岁，你实已垂垂老矣。但只要你心中矗立这电台，就会捕捉到乐观的电波，你就有望在80高龄时仍然有一颗年轻的心。
