青春英语作文600字篇7

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter ofrosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality ofthe imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deepsprings of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of theappetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow oldby 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 ofwonders, the unfailing appetite for what’s next and the joy of the game ofliving. In the center of your heart and my heart, there is a wireless station;so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, courage and power from man andfrom the infinite, so long as you are young.

When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows ofcynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at 20; but aslong as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there’s hope you maydie young at 80.