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4月29日 Love is difficult 爱是艰难的 Love is Difficult
Rainer Maria Rilke
It is also good to love: because love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation. That is why young people, who are beginner sin everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn. With their whole being, with all their forces, gathered around their solitary, anxious, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love. But learning-time is always a long, secluded time ahead and far on into life, is solitude, a heighened and deepened kind of aloneness for the person who loves. Loving does not at frst mean merging, surrendering, and uniting with another person (for what would a union be of two people who are unclarified, unfinished, and still incoherent, it is a high inducement for the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world, to become world in himself for the sake of another person; it is a great, demanding claim on him, something that chooses him and calls him to vast distance. Only in this sense, as the task of working on themselves "to hearken and to hammer day and night" ). may young people use the love that is given to them. Merging and surrendering and every kind of communion is not for them ( who must still, for a long, long time, save and gather themselfves); it is the ultimate, is perhaps that for which human lives are as yet barely large enough.
爱，很好。但爱是艰难的，因为我们去爱别人：这也许是神给予我们的最艰难. 最重大的任务，是最后的考验与测试，是最崇高的工作，别的工作都不过是为此而做的准备。所以那些一切都还刚刚开始的青年们还不能去爱，他们必须要学习。必须用他们整个的生命. 用一切的力量，用聚集了他们寂寞. 痛苦和荣誉感的心去学习爱。在学习时期这个长久而专注的过程中，爱就会永远地铭刻心扉--深深的寂寞中孤独地等待，是为了所爱的人。爱的要义并不是什么倾心. 献身. 或二人的结合（那会是怎样的一种结合呢？ 是一种糊涂的. 不负责任的. 轻率的结合）。它对于个人是一种崇高的动力，是去成熟并实现自身的圆满，去完成一个世界，是为了另一个人而完成一个自己的世界，这是一个艰巨的. 不可妥协的目标，用坚定的信念，向远方召唤。青年们应把爱当作他们的课业. 他们的工作的意义，并在其中（“昼夜不停地探索. 锤炼”）去使用那些给予他们的爱。至于倾心. 献身，以及结合，还不是他们所能做的（他们还需长时间地克制. 积累），那是最后的终点，也许是我们现在还几乎不能达到的境界。 4月28日 Youth 青春 Youth
Samuel Ullman
Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy checks, red lips and supple knees; it is a temper 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 the temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite of advanture over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely 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. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair --- these bow the heart and turn the spirit back to dust.
Wether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the love of wonder, the sweet amazement at the stars and the star like things, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing child-like appetite for what-next, and the joy of the game of living.
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, and old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
In the central place of your heart there is a wireless station, so long as it receives message of beauty, hope, courage, grandeur and power from the earth, from man and from the infinite, so long are you young.
When the wires are all down, and all the central places of your heart are covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old indeed.
青春不是年华，而是一种心态； 不是玫瑰般的脸庞，红润的嘴唇和敏捷的双腿，而是坚韧的意志，丰富的想象力，以及无穷的激情；青春是生命深处的一股清泉。
青春意味着勇气多于怯懦，青春意味着喜欢冒险而讨厌安逸。拥有此种品质的人之中，六十岁的老人往往多于二十岁的年轻人。没有人只因年龄的增长而年老， 人们往往因放弃理想而年老。
岁月可使肌肤长满皱纹， 但放弃激情可使心灵布满灰尘。焦虑. 疑惑. 猜疑. 恐惧和沮丧 -- 都会挫伤心灵，磨损意志。
不管是白发老人还是青春少年，每个人的心里皆有其喜欢之新奇事物，对星星和类似星星的东西皆有好奇之心，敢于挑战，对未知事物的孩子般的渴求之心，乐于享受生活带来的乐趣。
我们因充满信心而变得年轻；因心存疑惑而变得年老；因自信而年轻，因心存恐惧而年老；因充满希望而年轻，因满怀沮丧而年老。
人人心里都有一座无线电台，只要接收到来自地球. 人类和宇宙的美好. 希望. 勇气. 庄严及力量，就会变得年轻。
当心灵的天线倒下，心如大雪般的悲观. 如冰块般的愤世嫉俗时，那时，惟有那时，我们将真正老去。 |
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