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如果我像一只蜘蛛一样被困在了阁楼的一角，只要我有思想，这个世界对我来说还是一样的大。哲学家曾说过：“三军可夺帅，匹夫不可夺志也。”谦卑犹如黑暗，闪着天堂之光。多余的财富只够买多余的东西。灵魂的必需品，金钱一样都买不到。 I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprise? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. By Henry David Thoreau Love Your Life Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) was born at Concord, Massachusetts. He was educated at Harvard, and started out as a teacher. In 1845 he built a cabin at Walden Pond and there lived through the seasons at least for two years. He wrote of his thoughts that he had at Walden Pond, and the result was his book, Walden (1854). At one point, while at Walden Pond, he refused to pay his poll tax; for this act of civil disobedience, he spent a night in jail. Henry David Thoreau Like his neighbour, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), Thoreau was a transcendentalist, one who believes in the divine sufficiency of the individual. To quote Thoreau: The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them for this comes after work. But it is a characteris