對于熱愛生活的人，生活從來不吝嗇。消極，封閉自我，生命會長滿荒蕪；積極，熱愛生活，即便沙漠，也會成為生命的綠洲。
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so hard as you are. 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. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
不論你的生活如何卑賤，你要面對它生活，不要躲避它，更別用惡言咒罵它。它不像你那么壞。你要愛你的生活，盡管它貧窮。甚至在一個濟貧院里，你也還有愉快激動光榮的時候。夕陽反射在濟貧院的窗上，像照在富戶人家窗上一樣光亮；在那門前，積雪同在早春融化。我只看到，一個從容的人，在哪里也像在皇宮中一樣，生活得心滿意足而富有愉快的思想。視貧窮如園中之花而像圣人一樣耕植它吧！不要找新的花樣，無論是新的朋友或新的衣服來麻煩你自己。萬物不變，是我們在變。你的衣服可以賣掉，但要保留你的思想。
