Love Your Life

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 even 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 window of the alms-house as brightly 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 . The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any. Maybe they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which should be more disreputable . Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage . 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.