Love Your Life

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Love Your Life
酷爱生涯
                                    Henry David Thoreau/享利.大卫.梭罗
However mean your life is,meet it and live it ;do not shun it and call it hard names.It is not so bad as you are.It looks poorest when you are richest.The fault-finder will find faults in paradise.Love your life,poor as it is.You may perhaps have some pleasant,thrilling,glorious hourss,even in a poor-house.The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode;the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there,and have as cheering thoughts,as in a palace.The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.Most think that they are above being supported by the town;but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means.which should be more disreputable. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb,like sage.Do not trouble yourself much to get new things,whether clothes or friends,Turn the old,return to them.Things do not change;we change.Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
不管你的生活如何卑下，你要面对它生活，不要躲避它，更别用恶言诅咒它。它不像你那样坏。你最富有的时候，倒是看似最穷。爱找缺陷的人就是到天堂里也能找到毛病。你要爱你的生活，只管它贫穷。甚至在一个济贫院里，你也还有愉快、愉快、光彩的时候。夕阳反射在济贫院的窗上，像身在富户人家窗上一样光明；在那门前，积雪同在初春熔化。我只看到，一个从容的人，在哪里也像在皇宫中一样，生活得称心如意而富有高兴的思维。城镇中的穷人，我看，倒往往是过着最独破不羁的生活。兴许由于他们很巨大，所以受之无愧。大多数人认为他们是超然的，不靠城镇来声援他们；可是事实上他们是往往应用了不合法的手腕来凑合生活，他们是绝不超脱的，毋宁是不体面的。视贫困如园中之花而像圣人一样耕植它吧！不要找新的名堂，无论是新的友人或新的衣服，来麻烦你本人。找旧的，回到那里去。万物不变，是咱们在变。你的衣服能够卖掉，但要保存你的思惟。