However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. 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.

  • -- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

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。视贫穷如园中之花而像圣人一样耕植它吧。不要麻烦自己去找新的东西,无论是衣服还是朋友。万物不变,是我们在变。卖掉你的衣服,保留你的思想。

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Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

不要忘记一个人的生活的目的是改善人类自身,所以,他可能离开这个世界,在他伟大的球或小,做一些有利于他的生物和有点困难减少世界上的罪恶和悲伤。

Nothing else matters much -- not wealth, nor learning, nor even health -- without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

没有这一天赋——保持生活热情的精神能力,没有什么比财富、学识甚至健康更重要的了。这是信条的信条,是所有重要信仰的最终沉淀和升华:你应该能够相信生活。

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

历史的全部教训用四句话概括: 神要谁灭亡,必先使谁因势力而发狂。 天网恢恢,疏而不漏。天网恢恢,疏而不漏。 蜜蜂使它抢夺的花受精。 当足够黑的时候,你可以看到星星。

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

在我的实践中,摄影通过简单产生快乐。我看到一些特别的东西,并把它展示给相机。生成了一幅图。这一刻一直等到有人看到。那么它就是他们的了。

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

人们普遍认为犯罪是由贫困引起的,这是对穷人的一种污蔑。

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

如果你不能简单地解释它,你就不能很好地理解它。

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

贫穷有一种死亡的味道。

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

生活的目的就是生活的目的。