英语励志文章我正在变老

　　＂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.
　　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.
　　＂我惧怕临近岁末年尾＂，一位朋友最近对我说：＂它使我意识到我正在变老。＂
　　伟大的心理学家威廉•詹姆斯就曾说过，大多数人＂25岁时就成了守旧落伍者＂。他的话是对的。大多数人25岁时就满足于他们的工作。他们已经积累了一些他们称之为＂原则＂的偏见，对所有新的思想关闭心灵之门；他们已经停止成长。
　　一个人一旦停止成长--不管他年龄多大--他就开始衰老。反之，真正的伟人从来不会衰老。
　　歌德享年83岁，逝世前几年才完成《浮士德》；格莱斯顿70岁时又开始学习一门外国语；法国天文学家拉普拉斯78岁死时还在工作着。临死前，他大声喊道：＂我们所知的太少太少，我们所不知的太多太多。＂
　　＂一个人何时变老？＂，从这类事例中对这个问题你已经有了真正的答案。
　　拉普拉斯78岁逝世时依然年轻。他依旧不满足，依旧感到许多东西要学。
　　一个人，只要他能够保持这种心态，只要他在回首过去的一年时能够说＂我在成长＂，他就依然年轻。
　　他一旦停止成长，他一旦对自己说＂我该懂的都懂了＂，这个时候他的青春也就完了。他可能在25岁时死去，也可能在75岁时死去，这都没有区别。就在那一天，他开始变老。