Facial Delight

Youth is not only a span time in the life – youth is a state of consciousness.

It concerns not only blossoming cheeks, rosy lips or agile knees. It is a mood of the will, a quality of the powers of imagination, a freshness of the mind excitements, a mineral water of the deep life springs. She means a spiritual supremacy of the courage about being apprehensive, a desire to the adventure.
Nobody grows old because he has lived a certain number of years – the people grow old only if they give up her ideals. The years can wrinkle the skin if one loses, however, interest to the life, one wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, lack of assurance, fear and hopelessness, this are the scars of the long years which bend the head and which steer developing mind in the wrong direction.

The years play no role, every heart can experience miracle, the invincible challenge of the events can allow to resonate, can maintain the insatiable, childish appetite for the next day, the joy can share in the drama of the life.

You are as young as your faith, are as old as your doubts, am as young as your assurance, am as old as your fear, am as young as your hope, are as old as your hopelessness. In your heart middle is a news admission station – as long as there messages about beauty, courage and joy are registered, as long as you remain young!

If, however, the wires get in mess and the snow of the pessimism covers your heart and gets frostbite on the ice of the cynicism, then – and only you have become old!

General Douglas MacArthur