Love Your Life

biggoogle@newsletter.paragraph.com (biggoogle.eth) — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 13:54:44 GMT

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 in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may have some pleasant, delightful, 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. The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any. Perhaps they are great enough to receive without misgiving. Most people think they are above being supported by the town; But it is often the case that they have resorted to dishonest means of subsistence, and that they are not above it, which should be disreputable. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself to find new things, whether they be new friends or new clothes. Turn to the old and return to it. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes, but keep your thoughts.