不论你的生活如何卑贱，你要面对它生活，不要躲避它，更别用恶言咒骂它。它不像你那样坏。你最富有的时候，倒是看似最穷。爱找缺点的人就是到天堂里也能找到缺点。你要爱你的生活，尽管它贫穷。甚至在一个济贫院里，你也还有愉快、高兴、光荣的时候。夕阳反射在济贫院的窗上，像身在富户人家窗上一样光亮；在那门前，积雪同在早春融化。我只看到，一个从容的人，在哪里也像在皇宫中一样，生活得心满意足而富有愉快的思想。城镇中的穷人，我看，倒往往是过着最独立不羁的生活。也许因为他们很伟大，所以受之无愧。大多数人以为他们是超然的，不靠城镇来支援他们；可是事实上他们是往往利用了不正当的手段来对付生活，他们是毫不超脱的，毋宁是不体面的。视贫穷如园中之花而像圣人一样耕植它吧！不要找新的花样，无论是新的朋友或新的衣服，来麻烦你自己。找旧的，回到那里去。万物不变，是我们在变。你的衣服可以卖掉，但要保留你的思想。

作者简介：

梭罗，H．D．(HenryDavidThoreau1817-1862)。美国人。是著名的作家和思想家。生长在波士顿附近超验主义思想运动中心康科德村，父亲是小业主。他20岁于哈佛大学毕业，曾任教师，从事过各种体力劳动。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。 其作品Walden《瓦尔登湖》在中国广泛传播。

The man who is aware of himself is henceforth independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with profound yet temperate happiness. He alone lives, while other people, slaves of ceremony, let life slip past time in a kind of dream. Once conform, once do what other people do finer than they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul, He becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

　　凡是意识到自我的人从今往后才是独立的；他永远不知疲倦，他明白生命苦短，所以完全沉浸于深深的而又适度的幸福之中。他独立生活，而别人是繁文缛节的奴隶，在醉生梦死之中听从生命悄然流逝。一旦循规蹈矩，一旦人为亦为，呆滞就笼罩着灵魂中一切灵敏的神经和官能。灵魂变得徒有其表，其中空空；迟钝，木然、冷漠。

作者：Virginia Woolf/弗吉尼亚.吴尔夫

Joy in living comes from having fine emotions, trusting them, giving them the freedom of a bird in the open. Joy in living can never be assumed as a pose, or put on from the outside as a mask. People who have this joy don not need to talk about it; they radiate it. They just live out their joy and let it splash its sunlight and glo
w into other lives as naturally as bird sings.

We can never get it by working for it directly. It comes, like happiness, to those who are aiming at something higher. It is a byproduct of great, simple living. The joy of living comes from what we put into living, not from what we seek to get from it.

中文翻译：

　　生活之乐趣来源于良好的情绪，信赖这些情绪，并任由它们如同鸟儿高翔于天空般地自由自在。生活的乐趣是无法靠姿态摆出来的，也无法用戴上一张面具来伪装。 拥有这种乐趣的人们无需挂在嘴边，他们自然会焕发出快乐的气息。他们自己生活在快乐当中，也将这样的快乐自然而然地感染着他人，犹如是鸟儿就必将歌唱。

　　直接追求生活的乐趣却只会使乐趣远离我们，它与幸福一样青睐胸有大志的人们。生活过得高雅、简单便会产生出乐趣。它是我们对生活的投入，而非所求。

Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers urged, "Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience."
How right they were. Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you hang in there when the going gets tough. It is the inner voice that whispers, "I can do it!" when others shout, "No, you can't."
It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn't let up on her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.

We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder as anyone knows who has ever seen an infant's delight at the jingle of keys or the scurrying of a beetle.
It is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such a youthful air, whatever their age. At 90, cellist Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his stooped shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. Music, for Casals, was an elixir that made life a never ending adventure. As author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."

How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood? The answer, I believe, lies in the word itself. "Enthusiasm" comes from the Greek and means "God within." And what is God within is but an abiding sense of love -- proper love of self (self-acceptance) and, from that, love of others.

Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power. If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can as a part-time avocation, like the head of state who paints, the nun who runs marathons, the executive who handcrafts furniture.

Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended bouts of depression that had plagued her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, "I am tempted to call Layton a genius." Elizabeth has rediscovered her enthusiasm.

We can't afford to waste tears on "might-have-beens." We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after "what-can-be."

We need to live each moment wholeheartedly, with all our senses -- finding pleasure in the fragrance of a back-yard garden, the crayoned picture of a six-year-old, the enchanting beauty of a rainbow. It is such enthusiastic love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes, a lilt in our steps and smooths the wrinkles from our souls.

　　多年前， 当我第一次找工作时， 不少明智之士强烈向我建议：“巴巴拉,要有热情！热情比任何经验都更有益。”这话多么正确，热情的人可以把沉闷的车程变成探险， 把加班变成机会， 把生人变成朋友。

　　“没有热情就不会有任何伟大的成就，” 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生写道当事情进展不顺时，热情是帮助你坚持下去的粘合剂当别人叫喊“你不行”时， 热情是你内心发出的声音：“我能行”。

　　1983年诺贝尔医学奖的获得者遗传学家巴巴拉·麦克林托克早年的工作直到很多年后才被公众所承认但她并没有放弃实验工作对她来说是一种如此巨大的快乐， 她从未想过要停止它。

　　我们都生来好奇, 睁大眼睛, 满怀热情——每一个看到过婴儿听到钥匙声或看见乱爬的甲虫就兴奋不已的人都会明白这一点。

　　正是这种孩子气的好奇给了热情的人们(不论年龄大小) 一种青春的气息大提琴家帕布罗·卡萨尔斯在90岁时还坚持以拉巴赫开始他的每一天音乐从他的指间流出， 他弯着的背挺直起来， 欢乐再度溢满他的眼眸音乐对卡萨尔斯来说, 是使人生变成无止境的探索之旅的灵丹妙药就像作家兼诗人塞缪尔·厄尔曼曾写过的：“岁月使皮肤起了皱纹， 但如果失去热情， 便会使灵魂起皱纹”。

　　怎样才能找回孩提时代的热情呢？我相信答案就在“热情”这个词本身“热情”一词源于希腊语, 原意是“内在的上帝”这里所说的“内在的上帝”不是别的, 而是一种持久不变的爱——恰当的自爱(自我接受)， 并推而及于他人。

　　热情的人们同样热爱他们所做的事，而不是考虑钱位权如果我们不能把热爱的事作为正式职业， 我们也可把它当作业余消遣：比如有国家元首喜欢画画的， 有修女参加马拉松长跑的， 有行政官员手工制作家具的。

　　堪萨斯州韦尔斯维尔市的伊丽莎白·莱顿到68岁才开始画画这一爱好消除了曾纠缠她至少达30年之久的忧郁症而她的作品水准之高使得一个评论家说：“我忍不住要称莱顿为天才”伊丽莎白又找回了她的热情。

　　我们不应该把眼泪浪费在“早该”之类的后悔上我们需要把眼泪化为汗水, 去追求“可能”之物
我们需要以全副身心去度过生命中的每一分钟——在后花园的芬芳中在6岁小孩的蜡笔画中在彩虹醉人的美中找到快乐正是这种对生活的热爱， 让我们双目有神，让我们步履矫健,，让我们灵魂的皱纹展平。

Consider...YOU. In all time before now and in all time to come, there has never been and will never be anyone just like you. You are unique in the entire history and future of the universe. Wow! Stop and think about that. You're better than one in a  million, or a billion, or a gazillion...
　　试想一下……你！一个空前绝后的你，不论是以往还是将来都不会有一个跟你一模一样的人。你在历史上和宇宙中都是独一无二的。哇！想想吧，你是万里挑一、亿里挑一、兆里挑一的。

You are the only one like you in a sea of infinity!
　　在无穷无尽的宇宙中，你是举世无双的！！！

You're amazing! You're awesome! And by the way, TAG, you're it. As amazing and awesome as you already are, you can be even more so. Beautiful young people are the whimsey of nature, but beautiful old people are true works of art. But you don't become "beautiful" just by virtue of the aging process.
　　你是了不起的！你是卓越的！没错，就是你。你已经是了不起的，是卓越的，你还可以更卓越更了不起。美丽的年轻人是大自然的奇想，而美丽的老人却是艺术的杰作。但你不会因为年龄的渐长就自然而然地变得“美丽”。

Real beauty comes from learning, growing, and loving in the ways of life. That is the Art of Life. You can learn slowly, and sometimes painfully, by just waiting for life to happen to you. Or you can choose to accelerate your growth and intentionally devour life and all it offers. You are the artist that paints your future with the brush of today.
　　真正的美丽源于生命里的学习、成长和热爱。这就是生命的艺术。你可以只听天由命, 慢慢地学，有时候或许会很痛苦。又或许你可以选择加速自己的成长，故意地挥霍生活及其提供的一切。你就是手握今日之刷描绘自己未来的艺术家。

Paint a Masterpiece.
　　画出一幅杰作吧！

God gives every bird its food, but he doesn't throw it into its nest. Wherever you want to go, whatever you want to do, it's truly up to you.
　　上帝给了鸟儿食物，但他没有将食物扔到它们的巢里。不管你想要去哪里，不管你想要做什么，真正做决定的还是你自己。

Life is a gift we're given each and every day.
Dream about tomorrow, but live for today.
To live a little, you've got to love a whole lot.
Love turns the ordinary into the extraordinary.
生命是一份我们每日都收到的礼物。
要梦想明天，但要活好今天。
即便是短暂的人生，你也要付出无限的爱。
爱让平凡变得精彩。

Life's a journey always worth taking.
Take time to smell the roses...and tulips... 
and daffodils...and lilacs...and sunflowers...
生命永远是一段值得享受的旅程。
驻足去闻一下花香：玫瑰，郁金香，
水仙，丁香花，向日葵......

Count blessings like children count stars.
The secret of a happy life isn't buried in a treasure chest...
It lies within your heart.
It's the little moments that make life big.
细数幸福,就像孩子数星星一样。
幸福人生的秘密并非藏在财宝箱里......
而是埋在你的心底，
是那些小小的瞬间让生命变得伟大。

Don't wait. Make memories today.
Celebrate your life!
不要等待。今天就留下美好的记忆吧。
庆祝你的生命吧！

Everybody has blue days.
每个人都有忧郁的日子。
These are miserable days when you feel lousy, grumpy, lonely, and utterly exhausted.
那些日子真是惨透了，你觉得心里乱糟糟的、怨气丛生、寂寞、整个人彻底的精疲力竭。
Days when you feel small and insignificant,
那些日子总会让你感到自己的渺小和微不足道，
when everything seems just out of reach.
每件事情似乎都够不着边。
You can't rise to the occasion.
你根本无法振作起来。
Just getting started seems impossible.
根本没有力气重新开始。
On blue days you can become paranoid that everyone is out to get you.
在忧郁的日子里，你可能变成偏执狂，觉得每个人都想要吃定你。
This is not always such a bad thing.
其实情况并不总是那么糟。
You feel frustrated and anxious, which can induce a nail-biting frenzy that can escalate into a triple-chocolate-mud-cake-eating frenzy in a blink of an eye!
你感到灰心、焦虑，可能开始神经质地拼命咬指甲，然后不可救药地陷入一眨眼吃掉三大块巧克力蛋糕的疯狂！
On blue days you feel like you're floating in an ocean of sadness.
在忧郁的日子里，你会觉得自己在悲伤的海里沉沉浮浮。
You're about to burst into tears at any moment and you don't even know why.
不论在什么时候，你总有种想哭的冲动，却不知道为了什么。
Ultimately, you feel like you're wandering through life without purpose.
最后，你觉得自己犹如行尸走肉，失去生活目标。
You're not sure how much longer you can hang on,
你不知道自己还可以撑多久，
and you feel like shouting, "Will someone please shout me!"
然后你想大喊一声：“谁来一枪把我打死吧！”
It doesn't take much to bring on a blue day.
其实一点小事就让你一天都郁闷难当。
You might just wake up not feeling or looking your best,
也许只是一觉醒来，没有感觉到或者看到自己最棒的一面，
find some new wrinkles, put on a little weight, or get a huge pimple on your nose.
发现自己又多了几条皱纹，又重了几斤，或是鼻子上冒出了一个大包。
You could forget your date's name or have an embarrassing photograph published.
你可能忘记了约会对象的名字，或是有张可笑的照片被登出来。


You might get dumped, divorced, or fired, make a fool of yourself in public, be afflicted with a demeaning nickname,
你或许被人抛弃、离了婚，或是被开除，当众出丑，被刻薄的绰号弄得心乱如麻， 
or just have a plain old bad-hair day.
或许只因为你得整天顶着一个其丑无比的发型。
Maybe work is a pain in the butt.
也许工作让你痛苦得如坐针毡。
You're under major pressure to fill someone else's shoes,
你在强大的压力下顶替他人的位置，
your boss is picking on you,
你的老板对你百般挑剔，
and everyone in the office is driving you crazy.
办公室里的每一个人都让你发疯。
You might have a splitting headache,
你可能会头疼欲裂，
or a slipped dish, bad breath, a toothache, chronic gas, dry lips,
或重心不稳跌个正着，口臭、牙痛、不停放屁、口干舌燥，
or a nasty ingrown toenail.
或是指甲长到肉里头了。
Whatever the reason, you're convinced that someone up there doesn't like you.
不管什么原因，你确定上面有人不喜欢你。
Oh what to do, what to dooo?
唉，该怎么办，到底该怎么办呢？
Well, if you're like most people,
嗯，你可能跟大部分人一样， 
you'll hide behind a flimsy belief that everything will sort itself out.
随便找个东西躲起来，以为事情会自行解决。
Then you'll spend the rest of your life looking over your shoulder,
结果你得花掉下半辈子的时间回头看，
waiting for everything to go wrong all over again.
等着一次有一次重蹈覆辙。
All the while becoming crusty and cynical or a pathetic, sniveling victim.
最后你会变成一个易怒的、愤世嫉俗的，或者是 一个可怜兮兮的、哭哭啼啼的受害者。
Until you get so depressed that you lie down and beg the earth to swallow you up or, even worse, become addicted to Billy Joel songs.
最终你绝望地躺在地上，祈求地球将你吞没，或是沉迷在比利-乔的蓝调音乐中不能自拔。
This is crazy,
这的确很蠢，
because you're only young once and you're never old twice.
因为你只能年轻一次，而且绝对不可能老两次。