Walden

“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 even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse.

The setting 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.

I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”

-Henry David Thoreau, Walden