ParADisE

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 f
　　ault-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 fro
　　m 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 cheerin
　　g thoughts,as in a palace.The town’s poor seem to me often to live the most in
　　dependent 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 of
　　ten happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means.w
　　hich should be more disreputable.Cultivate poverty like a garden herb,like sag
　　e.Do not trouble yourself much to get new things,whether clothes or friends,Tu
　　rn the old,return to them.Things do not change;we change.Sell your clothes and keep you
　　r thoughts.