林语堂：『生命并没有价值，除非你选择并赋予它价值。没有哪一个地方有幸福，除非你为自己带来幸福。』
生命并没有价值，除非你选择并赋予它价值。没有哪一个地方有幸福，除非你为自己带来幸福。
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
这句广为流传的富有哲理的话，目前，2016年，所有网上百度的资料都将出处指向梭罗的《瓦尔登湖》。但经过考证，这本书里并没有这句话，真正的作者确是中国的作家——林语堂。这又是一句出口转内销的名言，真正的出处是林语堂在1950年写的《美国的智慧》（p. 446）中的一段话。Google查了原文才知道。
引用自下面的网页，这里纠正了很多错误的引用。
https://www.walden.org/Library/Quotations/The_Henry_D._Thoreau_Mis-Quotation_Page
Misattribution. By the Chinese author Lin Yutang (1895-1976) in his book, On the Wisdom of America (New York: John Day, 1950) p. 446:
Thoreau once thought the moon was larger over the United States than over the Old World, the sky bluer, the stars brighter, the thunder louder, the rivers longer, the mountains higher, the prairies vaster, and he mystically concluded that the spirit of man in America should be larger and more expansive "else why was America discovered?" Thoreau was wrong, and Thoreau was right. There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
这句广为流传的富有哲理的话，目前，2016年，所有网上百度的资料都将出处指向梭罗的《瓦尔登湖》。但经过考证，这本书里并没有这句话，真正的作者确是中国的作家——林语堂。这又是一句出口转内销的名言，真正的出处是林语堂在1950年写的《美国的智慧》（p. 446）中的一段话。Google查了原文才知道。
引用自下面的网页，这里纠正了很多错误的引用。
https://www.walden.org/Library/Quotations/The_Henry_D._Thoreau_Mis-Quotation_Page
Misattribution. By the Chinese author Lin Yutang (1895-1976) in his book, On the Wisdom of America (New York: John Day, 1950) p. 446:
Thoreau once thought the moon was larger over the United States than over the Old World, the sky bluer, the stars brighter, the thunder louder, the rivers longer, the mountains higher, the prairies vaster, and he mystically concluded that the spirit of man in America should be larger and more expansive "else why was America discovered?" Thoreau was wrong, and Thoreau was right. There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
