You should be younger at sixty, than at sixteen, because you have more of life.  Growing old is a habit.  People travel along the years up the hill of life, till they reach a certain point where they begin to think they must be growing old.  Think its time to sag.  Think its time to droop.  Think its time to begin the process of decay.  Then begin to talk about it.  To write letters about it.  To feel around for it.  To look for it in others.  Finally the habit they inherited from the race is on, and they are old.  Life is endless, but you can think it short, “The power of an endless life,” is within you, but by thinking you can turn it to the white ashes of old age.  Think youth and you stay young.

=Youth is growth:= Keep growing and you keep young.  A new idea will make you feel younger.  Develop it and it will develop you.  Quicken your mental throb with new ideas.  Begin now.  Stop talking about being too old to grow.  You pass by trees daily, a hundred, two hundred years old, still they are growing.  The rose bush on a wall in China is supposed to be over a thousand years old, it bears more roses now, than when it was a mere slip of a vine of only one hundred.  Gladstone at eighty-two was a growing statesman, and elected prime minister of England for the fourth time.  Cato at eighty began to study Greek, and renewed the youth of his mind.  Donald Davis is a growing hunter at one hundred and three.  Goddard Diamond was a growing teacher of health, when he was one hundred and eleven.  I know a bright, cheery lady who is just beginning a new study for decorating china, along with her household cares, and she is eighty-eight.  Also another woman who has taken up a new process of enlarging drawings into water-colors and she is eighty-one years young.  The fig tree withered when the Master of Life found it not growing, producing, creating.  When you stop growing you will wither by the same law.  Grow something, create something, produce something and the law of youth will pervade your Being.

=Youth is observing the law:= Observing the law of health, the law of mind, the law of growth, the law of harmony, the law of production, the law of expression, the law of beauty, the law of selflessness.  Keep your bodily forces up.  Rebuild destroyed tissue.  Keep the system free of waste.  Stop poisoning your body with anger, hate, jealousy, fear.  Keep your mind sweet.  Think cheerfully.  Avoid mental turmoil and excitement.  Two great enemies of youth are worry and fear.  The next is selfishness.  Think every morning when you rise—­“This new day is new life.  It is fresh from the hand of God.  It is mine to use.  I will increase it unto the Perfect Day.”  Grow in each day, and make each day grow.  Check discord.  Quit useless discussion for it weakens and withers.  Stop quarreling.  Check complainings.  Root criticism out of your life.  You are bigger than these things.  Get into harmony.  You are of the world, upon worlds, universe unto universe.  Study your words to make them have beauty, your walk to have grace, your personality to make it magnetic, your smile to give courage and comfort, your presence to have it healing, helping, inspiring.  “If there be any virtue in whatsoever things are lovely, think on those things.”