雙語閱讀：Love your life熱愛生活

亨利·戴維·梭羅(Henry David Thoreau，1817-1862)，美國作家、哲學家，超驗主義代表人物，也是一位廢奴主義及自然主義者，有無政府主義傾向，曾任職土地勘測員。

However mean your life is, meet it and live it;do not shun it and call it hard names.

不論你的生活如何卑賤，你要面對它生活，不要躲避它，更別用惡言咒罵它。

It is not so bad as you looks poorest when you are fault-finder will find faults in paradise.

它不像你那樣壞。你最富有的時候，倒是看似最窮。愛找缺點的人就是到天堂裏也能找到缺點。

Love your life, poor as it may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious, honours, even in a poor-house.

你要愛你的生活，儘管它貧窮。

甚至在一個濟貧院裏，你也還有愉快、高興、光榮的時候。

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode;

夕陽反射在濟貧院的窗上，像身在富戶人家窗上一樣光亮;

the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.

在那門前，積雪同樣在早春融化。

I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

我只看到，一個從容的人，在哪裏也像在皇宮中一樣，生活得心滿意足而富有愉快的思想。

The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.

城鎮中的窮人，我看，倒往往是過着最獨立不羈的生活。

Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.

也許因爲他們很偉大，所以受之無愧。

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.

大多數人以爲他們是超然的，不靠城鎮來支援他們;可是事實上他們是往往利用了不正當的手段來對付生活，他們是毫不超脫的，毋寧是不體面的。視貧窮如園中之花而像聖人一樣耕植它吧!

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.

不要找新的花樣，無論是新的朋友或新的衣服，來麻煩你自己。

Turn the old, return to them.

找舊的，回到那裏去。

Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

萬物不變，是我們在變。

你的衣服可以賣掉，但要保留你的思想。