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德国作家塞缪尔-厄尔曼的《青春》

 eqf355 2007-07-31
德国作家塞缪尔-厄尔曼的《青春》
 
   版本1(推荐):青春不是生命中的一段时光,不是指绯红的双颊、红润的嘴唇、柔软的腰肢;它是一种精神状态,是坚定的意志、丰富的想象、澎湃的热情;青春是生命的勃勃涌泉。 青春意味着战胜懦弱的那股大丈夫气概和摒弃安逸的那种冒险精神。往往一个60岁的老者比一个二十岁的青年更多一点这种劲头。人老并不仅仅是岁月流逝所致,更主要的是放弃理想不思进取和懒惰的结果。 岁月可以在脸上留下印记,而激情消失却会给灵魂刻下皱纹。焦虑、恐惧、缺乏自信,会使人的心灵扭曲,并将青春化为灰烬。 无论60岁还是20岁,您需要保持永不衰竭的好奇心,永不熄灭孩提般的求知的渴望和追求事业成功 欢乐与热情。在你我心中都有一个无线电台:它能在多长时间里接收到世间万物传递来的美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信号,你就会年轻多长时间。 当你收起天线时,你的心灵就为冰雪所覆盖,愤世嫉俗、悲观厌世就会油然而生,即使才20岁,也依然会老气横秋;然而只要你一直架着天线,接收着乐观的信号,你便有希望活到80岁离开人世时,依然怀着一颗年轻的心。   

版本2:人生匆匆,青春不是易逝的一段。青春应是一种永恒的心态。满脸红光,嘴唇红润,腿脚灵活,这些都不是青春的全部。真正的青春啊,它是一种坚强的意志,是一种想象力的高品位,是感情充沛饱满,是生命之泉的清澈常新。
青春意味着勇敢战胜怯懦,青春意味着进取战胜安逸,年月的轮回就一定导致衰老吗?要知道呵,老态龙钟是因为放弃了对真理的追求。

无情岁月的流逝,留下了深深的皱纹,而热忱的丧失,会在深处打下烙印。焦虑、恐惧、自卑,终会使心情沮丧,意志消亡。
60也罢,16也罢,每个人的心田都应保持着不泯的意志,去探索新鲜的事物,去追求人生乐趣。我们的心中都应有座无线电台,只要不断地接受来自人类和上帝的美感、希望、勇气和力量,我们就会永葆青春。倘若你收起天线,使自己的心灵蒙上玩世不恭的霜雪和悲观厌世的冰凌,即使你年方20,你已垂垂老矣;倘若你已经80高龄,临于辞世,若竖起天线去收听乐观进取的电波,你仍会青春焕发。
 

原文:                                              
      Youth

                                                                              Samuel Ullman(塞缪尔.厄尔曼)

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 tempera?瞞ental 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?瞕istrust bows the heart and turns the spring back to dust.Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being?餾 heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of what?餾 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.

 

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