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Love Your Life Henry David Thoreau 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 hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich mans 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 towns 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. 作者简介： 亨利·戴维·梭罗（Henry David Thoreau，1817-1862），美国作家、哲学家在学生时代与爱默生相识，在爱默生影响下，阅读柯尔律治、卡莱尔等人的著作，研究东方的哲学思想，同时以爱默生倡导的“自助”精神进行思考，形成了一套独立见解。是19世纪超验主义运动的重要代表人物。梭罗的著作都是根据他在大自然中的体验写成。1839年他和哥哥在梅里马克河上划船漂游，写成《在康科德与梅里马克河上一周》(1849)，发挥了他对自然、人生和文艺问题的见解。他的代表作《尔登》(1854)记录了他于1845至1847年在康科德附近的尔登湖畔度过的一段隐居生活。在他笔下，自然、人以及超验主义理想交融汇合，然一体。瓦尔登湖（Walden; or, Life in the Woods），是美国作家亨利·大卫·梭罗所著的一本著名散文集梭罗在书中详尽地描述了他在瓦尔登湖湖畔一片再生林中度过两年两月的生活以及期间他的许多思考。瓦尔登湖地处美国马萨诸塞州东部的康科德城，离梭罗家不远。梭罗把这次经历称为简朴隐居生活的一次尝试。细细读过《瓦尔登湖》的人都有体会；他是在探求怎样实实在在的生活，怎样体验与经历有意义的生活，这是一本宁静、恬淡、充满智慧的书。其中分析生活，批判习俗处，语语惊人，字字闪光，见解独特，耐人寻味。许多篇页是形象描绘，优美细致，像湖水的纯洁透明，像山林的茂密翠绿；也有一些篇说理透彻，十分精辟，给人启迪。亨利·戴维·梭罗不论你的生活如何卑贱，面对它生活，不要避它，更恶言咒骂它。它不像你那样。你最富有的时候，似最穷。爱在哪里像在皇宫中一样，生活得心满意足而富有愉快的思想。倒往往是过着最独立不羁的生活。不靠城镇；是我们在变。衣服可以卖掉，但你的思想。Youth Samuel Ullman Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a ma