青春

在這個世界上，還有什么字眼比“青春”更動人，更富有魅力？

青春是一種心境，是一種品質(zhì)，是深沉的意志、恢弘的想象、熾熱的感情和自信的心態(tài)的結(jié)合體。青春就是生機(jī)和活力，青春就是信心和勇氣，青春就是前進(jìn)的動力。

親愛的你，在這個最“迷人”的年紀(jì)，一起走進(jìn)這個如詩如畫的世界，擁抱黎明，擁抱陽光，擁抱青春，擁抱希望，共同體驗(yàn)這段美麗的人生歷程。

Youth

Samuel Ullman

這是一篇關(guān)于“青春”的哲理散文，傳說太平洋戰(zhàn)爭打得正酣之時，麥克阿瑟將軍還常常從繁忙中抬起頭，注視著掛在墻上的鏡框里的文章；松下電器公司的創(chuàng)始人松下幸之助，數(shù)十年來把這篇文章當(dāng)作其座右銘。力量源自哪里?或許，就是它深刻的思想、巧妙的論辯力、精彩的語言。

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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 dust.

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.

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.

塞繆爾·厄爾曼（Samuel Ullman，1840—1920），出生于德國，童年時移居美國密西西比。他是一位五金制品商，熱心公益67年如一日。厄爾曼雖以教育家和社會活動家聞名于世，但在文學(xué)創(chuàng)作方面也很有才華。

只要愿意，青春常在！

Feeling of Youth

No young man believes he shall ever die. It was a saying of my brother’s， and a fine one. There is a feeling of Eternity in youth， which makes us amend for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortal Gods. One half of time indeed is flownthe other half remains in store for us with all its countless treasures; for there is no line drawn， and we see no limit to our hopes and wishes. We make the coming age our own

If you want your life to be more rewarding， you have to change the way you think. 若想要收獲更多，那你就得改變一下自己思維方式。

Sometimes wisdom is knowing when it’s time to move on. 有時候，真正的智慧就是懂得何時重新開始。

The vast， the unbounded prospect lies before us.

Death， old age are words without a meaning. That pass by us like the idea air which we regard not. Others may have undergone， or may still be liable to them—we “bear a charmed life”， which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey， we strain our eager gaze forwardbidding the lovely scenes at distance hail!

And see no end to the landscape， new objects presenting themselves as we advance; so， in the commencement of life， we set no bounds to our inclinations， nor to the unrestricted opportunities of gratifying them. We have as yet found no obstacle， no disposition to flag; and it seems that we can go on so forever. We look round in a new world， full of life， and motion， and ceaseless progress; and feel in ourselves all the vigor and spirit to keep pace with it， and do not foresee from any present symptoms how we shall be left behind in the natural course of things， decline into old age， and drop into the grave. It is the simplicity， and as it were abstractedness of our feelings in youth， that（so to speak）identifies us with nature， and（our experience being slight and our passions strong）deludes us into a belief of being immortal like it. Our shortlives connection with existence we fondly flatter ourselves， is an indissoluble and lasting uniona honeymoon that knows neither coldness， jar， nor separation. As infants smile and sleep， we are rocked in the cradle of our wayward fancies， and lulled into security by the roar of the universe around us0we quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it， instead of which it only overflows the moreobjects press around us， filling the mind with their magnitude and with the strong of desires that wait upon them， so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

關(guān)于青春，你會想起哪些名句呢？

1. In youth， we clothe ourselves with rainbows， and go as brave as the zodiac.（Emerson）

2. Life is a leaf of paper white， thereon each of us may write his word or two.（Amy Lowell）

3. Youth is the season of hope， enterprise， and energy to a nation as well as an individual.（W. R. Williams）

4. There is a limit to one’s youth， but no limit to his wisdom. Draw on the limitless wisdom during the short span of youth.（Maxim Gorky） 

作者：王可，本科畢業(yè)于哈佛大學(xué)本科生院，后在哈佛大學(xué)教育學(xué)院獲碩士學(xué)位。從本科期間即在哈佛大學(xué)招生辦公室工作，曾任哈佛大學(xué)招收亞裔學(xué)生的協(xié)調(diào)人，畢業(yè)后在中國、洛杉磯、芝加哥等地為哈佛招生做面試工作?，F(xiàn)在芝加哥擔(dān)任教育咨詢專家，專門從事高校與非營利機(jī)構(gòu)融資設(shè)計。曾接受CCTV《實(shí)話實(shí)說》、《Dialog》等專題采訪。