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 freshne of the deep springs of life.Youth means a tempera-mental 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 spring back to
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’sheart 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 wirele station: so long as it receives meages 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 peimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of dust.
optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.All endings have been written,
All tears have been on the way.
Suddenly the beginning was forgotten
In the past old summer day.
No matter how hard I trace my mind,
Young you paing like a cloud and wind
Fuzzy seems your smiling face,
Slowly fades in eve mount haze.
Then I open the book to flyleaf yellow,
Only to find the fate binds it so hollow.
In tears at the book again and again I look,
I have to admit youth is too hasty a book.
An individual human existence should be like a river—small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing paionately past boulders and over waterfalls.Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlely lose their individual being.
Sexism in America 美国性别歧视(英文版)(配合PPT演讲)
