不論你的生活多麼卑賤

"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 man's abode; The snow melts before its door as early in the spring. "

Walden, "Conclusion". Henry David Thoreau

不論你的生活多麼卑賤，你要去面對，去體驗；不要躲避它，更別用惡言咒罵它。生活不像你那樣壞。你最富有的時候，倒是看似最窮。愛找缺點的人就是到天堂也能找到缺點。你要愛你的生活，盡管它是貧窮的。甚至在一個救濟裡，你也有愉快、興奮、光榮的時候。救濟院的窗上反射夕陽，和富戶人家反射的陽光同樣閃亮；在那富貴人家門前，積雪同在早春融化。