Love Your Life

請點擊欣賞：Love Your Life 熱愛生活
作者：亨利·大衛·梭羅
來源：美語世界 畫眉深淺

　　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 hourss, 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 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.  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.

　　不論你的生活如何卑賤，你要麵對它生活，不要躲避它，更別用惡言咒罵它。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。

　　你要愛你的生活，盡管它貧窮。甚至在一個濟貧院裏，你也還有愉快、高興、光榮的時候。夕陽反射在濟貧院的窗上，像身在富戶人家窗上一樣光亮；在那門前，積雪同在早春融化。

　　我隻看到，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。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。找舊的，回到那裏去。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。

　　Henry David Thoreau
　　From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

　　Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings.

　　His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore; while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time imploring one to abandon waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.

[林貝卡]

回複靜謐海灣的評論:

Well said.

Good night to you and sweet dream.

Have a nice week,

Rebecca

[靜謐海灣]

"Love Your Life " -- Let us do it.

Good morning, Rebecca.

Enjoy your new week,

I am going to sleep now.

[林貝卡]

Love Your Life 熱愛生活

Henry David Thoreau/享利.大衛.梭羅

來源: [ 美語世界 ] 畫眉深淺 於 09-05-17 15:22:32

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