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Cow Creek, Millville, Near Redding, California.
On Youth
Youth is not entirely a time of life -- it is a
state of mind. It is not wholly a
matter of ripe cheeks, red lips, or supple knees.
It is a temper of will, a
quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years.
People grow old only
by deserting their ideals. You are as young as
your faith, as old as your
doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old
as your fears; as young as
your hope, as old as your despair.
In the central place of every heart, there is a
recording chamber; so long as it
receives messages of beauty and hope, cheer and
courage, you are young.
When the wires are all down and your heart is covered
with the snows of
pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then and only
then have you grown old.
-- Author Unknown