Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind, a product of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a predominance of courage over timidity, an appetite for adventure.

Nobody grows old by living a number of years. People grow old when they desert their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Worry, self-doubt, fear, and anxiety—these are the culprits that bow the head and break the spirit.

Whether seventeen or seventy, there exists in the heart of every person who loves life the thrill of a new challenge, the insatiable appetite for what is coming next. You are as young as your faith and as old as your doubts.

So long as your heart receives from your head messages that reflect beauty, courage, joy, and excitement, you are young. When your thinking becomes clouded with pessimism and prevents you from taking risks, then you are old.

Personally, I am very concerned about people my age and of every age whose heart is receiving messages from their head that DO NOT reflect beauty, courage, joy and excitement. Rather, their heart is receiving messages of pessimism, negativism, falsehood and hatred from their head.

I recently received several emails loaded with negativism and character assassinations. When I Googled Fact Check, the trails of lies were fully exposed. There was not one ounce of truth or validity in these emails. Yet millions of heads had sent such totally false and hateful messages to millions who believed them to be true.  

Has YOUR head been sending messages of beauty, courage, joy and excitement to YOUR heart?

AGE MAKES YOU OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER, BUT GOD MAKES YOU WISE ENOUGH TO DO BETTER!

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