热爱生活的人，即使狂风暴雨，也能看到彩虹，他们相信“阳光总在风雨后”；抱怨生活的人，即使阳光普照，也会紧琐双眉，他们觉得阳光刺疼了眼睛。其实，生活不在别处，就在你的心里。美国作家亨利·大卫·梭罗的这篇《Love your Life》道出生活真谛：能处处寻找快乐的人才是最富有的。

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun¹ 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 hours 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 abode²; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly³ 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. Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving⁴. 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 sage⁵. 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.