Love Your Life

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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 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. The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any. May be

they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving. Most think that they are above being supported by the

town; but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means. which should be

more disreputable. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new

things, whether clothes or friends, Turn the old, return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your

clothes and keep your thoughts.
The man who is aware of himself is henceforth independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short,

and he is steeped through and through with profound yet temperate happiness. He alone lives, while other people,

slaves of ceremony, let life slip past time in a kind of dream. Once conform, once do what other people do finer

than they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul,He becomes all outer

show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.wow power leveling

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Joy in living comes from having fine emotions, trusting them, giving them the freedom of a bird in the open. Joy

in living can never be assumed as a pose, or put on from the outside as a mask. People who have this joy don not

need to talk about it; they radiate it. They just live out their joy and let it splash its sunlight and glo w

into other lives as naturally as bird sings.flyff penya,
We can never get it by working for it directly. It comes, like happiness, to those who are aiming at something

higher. It is a byproduct of great, simple living. The joy of living comes from what we put into living, not

from what we seek to get from it.Knight Gold,
Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers urged, "Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm

will take you further than any amount of experience."
How right they were. Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity

and strangers into friends.

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you

hang in there when the going gets tough. It is the inner voice that whispers, "I can do it!" when others shout,

"No, you can't."flyff penya,
It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in

medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn't let up on her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for

her that she never thought of stopping.2moons gold,

We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder as anyone knows who has ever seen an infant's delight at the

jingle of keys or the scurrying of a beetle.
It is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such a youthful air, whatever their age. At 90,

cellist Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his stooped

shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. Music, for Casals, was an elixir that made life a

never ending adventure. As author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up

enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."

How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood? The answer, I believe, lies in the word itself.

"Enthusiasm" comes from the Greek and means "God within." And what is God within is but an abiding sense of love

-- proper love of self (self-acceptance) and, from that, love of others.

Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power. If we cannot do what we love

as a full-time career, we can as a part-time avocation, like the head of state who paints, the nun who runs

marathons, the executive who handcrafts furniture.
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Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended bouts of depression

that had plagued her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, "I am tempted to

call Layton a genius." Elizabeth has rediscovered her enthusiasm.

We can't afford to waste tears on "might-have-beens." We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after "what

-can-be."

We need to live each moment wholeheartedly, with all our senses -- finding pleasure in the fragrance of a back-

yard garden, the crayoned picture of a six-year-old, the enchanting beauty of a rainbow. It is such enthusiastic

love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes, a lilt in our steps and smooths the wrinkles from our souls.