loveyourlife爱生活的英语美文

However mean your life is , meet it and live it, do not shun it or call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The faultfinder will find faults in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse 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 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 a 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.

不管你的生活怎么恶劣，都要迎头应对，好好地活，不要躲避，也不要咒骂。它并不像你自己那么差劲。当你最富有的时候，它看上去最贫穷。挑毛病的人即使在天堂也能挑出毛病。爱你的生活，即使它很穷。就算在救济院，你也有可能有快乐、激动、光彩的时刻。落日从救济院的窗户上反射出来的`光辉，同富人家窗户上的一样明亮；门前的积雪同样在早春融化。虽然我未亲眼所见，但是一个有平常心的人可以生活得心满意足，快乐幸福，犹如生活在宫殿。城里的穷人在我看来却时常过着最洒脱的生活。也许他们伟大到了可以接受而无需滥施的境界。许多人觉得自己自足自立，不靠谁养活；但实情是他们靠着不诚实来养活自己，这才是更羞耻的事。犹如圣人，犹如花园里的一株草一样去改造贫穷吧。不要自寻烦恼地添置新东西，不管是新衣服还是新朋友。去翻检旧物吧。转向老朋友。东西不会变化，我们会。卖掉衣服，保留思想。