翻閱報紙，看見每日名言，中文是這樣寫：
「歲月可能會在你的皮膚上留下皺紋，但放棄熱情必然會使你的靈魂起皺紋」
一句暮鼓晨鐘的警語，出自年近八十寫下這句話的Samuel Ullman，一位移民到美國的猶太人，逃離德國種族仇視，南北戰爭一耳失聰，終其一生為捍衛人道主義而活。我上網找了原文：
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
這段話出自「Youth」詩集，全篇不到500字，卻字字珠璣，蘊含智慧，出自耆老之手，奧妙穹穹。
[Youth by Samuel Ullman]
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 temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. 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 spirit back to dust.
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like 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 twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.
找到一篇翻譯，應出自大陸官方出版，擷取如下：
青春不是年華，而是心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沈的意志，恢宏的想象，炙熱的戀情；青春是生命的深泉在湧流。
青春氣貫長虹，勇銳蓋過怯弱，進取壓倒苟安。如此銳氣，二十後生而有之，六旬男子則更多見。年歲有加，並非垂老，理想丟棄，方墮暮年。
歲月悠悠，衰微只及肌膚；熱忱抛卻，頹廢必致靈魂。憂煩，惶恐，喪失自信，定使心靈扭曲，意氣如灰。
無論年屆花甲，擬或二八芳齡，心中皆有生命之歡樂，奇迹之誘惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一台天線，只要你從天上人間接受美好、希望、歡樂、勇氣和力量的信號，你就青春永駐，風華常存。
一旦天線下降，銳氣便被冰雪覆蓋，玩世不恭、自暴自棄油然而生，即使年方二十，實已垂垂老矣；然則只要樹起天線，捕捉樂觀信號，你就有望在八十高齡告別塵寰時仍覺年輕。
(以上中英對照出自這裡)
再也沒有比長者講出青春更讓人信服他人生的體悟，是如此堅信、純真。我們都當青春歲月是曾經，不再年輕了，放棄了冒險，選擇了現實。自此不時哀悼跟嘆息，年歲增長，一事無成，時間是偷走夢想的兇手，慘忍綁住你的手腳，綁困在生活的任苒，載浮載沈，懊悔垂喪，一把推你入無底深淵。
聽多了「我老了」這種話，不自覺把體力衰弱當藉口。不比年輕囉，自己一步步接受衰老的事實，心境也若耗退磨損般步步走向暮年。可怕就在此，故步自封強鎖在年紀數字上，習慣了也不用再衝刺努力了，什麼生命的意義，也不過是一身臭皮囊在背負而已。
自認失去青春，就是落跑逃兵，不想面對而已。我一直很喜歡「Just Do it」這標語，很多時候我也是顧前想後，當一個只會說把握當下而不勇敢嘗試的逃兵。往往基於經驗值，學會了給自己打預防針，怎樣不受傷，怎樣迂迴躲避，這可是累積幾十年的衝拖泡蓋說演變下來的老手經驗。
不想花了一輩子，領悟了失落失望絕望，不斷不斷提醒，如更新韌體，刷一下靈魂記憶體，擁抱心中那個小孩，微笑看世界，好奇眼珠子轉啊轉，享受生命的成長與喜悅，至於必經的歷練下的痛苦與傷心，快快打包丟到資源回收筒裡，然後按下清除，一掃而空吧!
記得啊記得!
Stay hungry, stay foolish!
