Youth

Youth is not just a chapter in your life, but a state of the soul: consisting of a certain form of will power and preparedness to dream and fantasize. It's an emotional power that lets courage prevail over timidness and cowardice.
It's not the fact that you've lived a lot of years that makes you feel old; but that you might have given up your own ideals in life. Like the years that are carving their traces in our bodies, its the renunciation of enthusiasm that carves lackluster mediocrity in our souls.
The young needs to preserve a sense of awe and wonderment for life and what it has to offer for the one who seeks. You'll stay young as long as your heart can communicate, and receive the messages of beauty and courage..... 

Klauss Hoffman Houch