However menial your life is,meet it and live it ;do not shun¹ it and call it hard names.

It is not so bad as you thought.It might look poorest when you are richest.

The fault-finder will find faults in paradise.

Love your life even poor as it is.

You may have some pleasant,thrilling,glorious hours,even in a poor-house.

the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.

A quiet mind may live contentedly² there,and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

They are great simply because they receive life without misgiving³.

不论你的生活如何卑微，你要面对它，不要躲避它，更别用恶言咒骂它。

它不像你想的那样差劲。或许你最富有的时候，倒是看似最穷的时候。

爱找缺点的人就是到天堂里也能找到缺点。

你要爱你的生活，尽管它贫穷。

甚至在破旧的房子里，你也会有愉快、高兴、光荣的时候。

在那门前，积雪在早春融化。

一个从容的人，在哪里也会像在皇宫中一样，生活得神采奕奕。

他们之所以伟大，仅仅是因为珍惜生活。