The alchemy

不管你的生活多麼微賤，
好好去過；別躲避，別咒罵。
它並不差，
最富足的生活，看起來是最困苦的。
愛挑剔的人在天堂中也能挑出毛病。
愛你的生活，不管它是多麼困頓。
你可能會在其中體驗到無比的光彩與喜愛，
.......映照在救濟院窗戶和富人住屋上的陽光同樣燦爛；
門前積雪同樣都會在春天消融。

---梭羅

However mean your life is, meet it and live it;
do not shun it and call it hard names.
It is not bad......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 poorhouse,
The sun is reflected from the windows
of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode;
the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.

---Henry David Thoreau