Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.
Interpretation
Youth is a mindset rather than just an age.
This quote suggests that being youthful is an attitude and a way of thinking, rather than merely a phase in life marked by age. It emphasizes that one's mindset and outlook can keep the spirit of youth alive, regardless of the physical signs of aging.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing life at any age.
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.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
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, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
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.
You can't 'work through worry and fear rationally,' because fear isn't rational!
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.
I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own.
If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen.
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