Love your life 熱愛生活
However mean your life is, meet it and live it;
不論你的生活有多麼不堪，請好好地面對它Do not shun it and call it hard names.
不要躲避它，也不要對它惡語相向It is not as bad as you suppose.
它沒有你想的那麼糟糕It looks poorest when you are richest.
有時最富有的時候，生活往往最貧瘠The faultfinder will find faults in paradise.
要知道，眼裡盡是缺點的人，即使在天堂也會挑三揀四 Love your life, poor as it is.
熱愛你的生活吧，自得其樂地去享受它You may perhaps have some pleasant,thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse.
你可以有一段愉悅的高興的美好時光，即使是在救濟院裡The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-houses brightly as from the rich man's abode;
你可以看到反射在窗上的溫暖陽光，和富人家的陽光一樣耀眼The snow melts before its door as early in the spring.
春天來了，門前的積雪一點點地融化
I do not see how a quiet mind may,live so contentedly there,
一個擁有從容靈魂的人，到哪裡都會精神富足And have as cheerful thoughts,as if they live in a palace.
如同在皇宮中生活般愉悅暢快The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.
那些小鎮中的窮人，往往過著最獨立不羈的生活
Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.
也許是因為他們對生活要求簡單，不需要患得患失Most think that they are above being supported by the town;
大多數人認為他們對城市的救濟嗤之以鼻But it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means.
事實是他們不願接受這種通過欺騙的手段，而得來的救助Which would be more disreputable.
這在他們看來，是更不體面的，會令他們羞愧的
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.
像智者一樣，將貧窮視作花園裡的花一樣去細心栽培它吧Do not trouble yourself much to get new things,
不要折騰自己總是尋找新的花樣Whether clothes or friends, turn to the old,return to the old.
去找你的老朋友和舊衣服吧，迴歸本來的生活。Things do not change, we change.
萬物不變，是我們在變Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
願你可以帶著最微薄的行李和最豐盛的自己在世間流浪*By Henry David Thoreau（作者：梭羅）；朗讀者：Cheryl Lee | EF
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