英語勵志美文：變老的那一天
摘抄：一個人，只有他可以堅持這種心態，只要他在回想從前的一年時可能說“我在成長”，他就仍然年青。下面是本站小編整理的英語勵志美文：變老的那一天，歡迎大家閱讀。
“I dread to come to the end of the year,said a friend to me recently, ”it makes me realize I am growing old.“
William James, the great psychologist, said that most men are ”old fogies at twenty-fiveHe was right. Most men at twenty-five are satisfied with their jobs. They have accumulated the little stock of prejudices that they call their “Principles, ” and closed their minds to all new ideas; they have ceased to grow.
The minutea man ceases to grow-no matter what his years-that minute he begins to be old. On the other hand, the really great man never grows old.
“我害怕鄰近歲末年尾”，一位友人最近對我說：“它使我意識到我正在變老。”
巨大的心理學家威廉?詹姆斯就曾說過，大多數人“25歲時就成了保守掉隊者”。他的話是對的。大多數人25歲時就知足於他們的工作。他們已經積聚了一些他們稱之爲“準則”的成見，對所有新的思維封閉心靈之門;他們已經停止成長。
一個人一旦停滯成長--不論他年紀多大--他就開始朽邁。反之，真正的巨人素來不會衰老。
Goethe passed out at eighty-three, and finished his Faust only a few years earlier; Gladstone took up a new language when he was seventy. Laplace, the astronomer, was still at work when death caught up with him at seventy-eight. He died crying, “What we know is nothing; what we do not know is immense.”
And there you have the real answer to the question, “When is a man old?”
Laplace at seventy-eight died young. He was still unsatisfied, still sure that he had a lot to learn.
As long as a man can keep himself in that attitude of mind, as long as he can look back on every year and say , “I grew,” he is still young.
The minute he ceases to grow, the minute he says to himself, “I know all that I need to know,”--that day youth stops. He may be twenty-five or seventy-five, it makes no difference. On that day he begins to be old.
歌德享年83歲，去世前多少年才實現《浮士德》;格萊斯頓70歲時又開始學習一門本國語;法國地理學家拉普拉斯78歲死時還在工作着。臨死前，他大聲喊道：“咱們所知的太少太少，我們所不知的太多太多。”
“一個人何時變老?”，從這類事例中對這個問題你已經有了真正的謎底。
拉普拉斯78歲逝世時依然年輕。他照舊不滿意，仍舊覺得很多貨色要學。
一個人，只有他可以堅持這種心態，只要他在回想從前的一年時可能說“我在成長”，他就仍然年青。
他一旦結束成長，他一旦對本人說“我該懂的都懂了”，這個時候他的青春也就完了。他可能在25歲時死去，也可能在75歲時逝世去，這都不差別。就在那一天，他開端變老。
