Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up
enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear,
self-distrust bows the heart and turns the
spirit back to dust.
-- Samuel Ullman
1840-1924,
German-born American Educator, Writer, Poet
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
twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to
catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you
may die young at eighty.
-- Samuel Ullman
1840-1924,
German-born American Educator, Writer, Poet
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every
human being's heart the lure of wonder, the
unfailing child-like appetite of what's next,
and the joy of the game of living. In the center
of your heart and my heart there is a wireless
station; so long as it receives messages of
beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men
and from the infinite, so long are you young.
-- Samuel Ullman
1840-1924,
German-born American Educator, Writer, Poet
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of
years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
-- Samuel Ullman
1840-1924,
German-born American Educator, Writer, Poet
